The Empire of Tingleton is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 7 million Tingletonians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 63.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Tingletonian economy, worth 283 billion Lerbs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 40,507 Lerbs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up, a driving license is obtained not by passing a test but by passing a brown envelope, and singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tingleton's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Tingleton is ranked 324,816^th in the world and 579^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -11.22 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.