The Join Lily of TLS 13 is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. The hard-working population of 13.703 billion Join Lily are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 18.3%.

The Join Lily economy, worth 650 trillion Join Lilies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. Average income is 47,455 Join Lilies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, and dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TLS 13's national animal is the Join Lily, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TLS 13 is ranked 161,934^th in the world and 1,176^th in Lily for Largest Black Market, with 953 billion Standard Monetary Units.