The Republic of Toothbrush is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Toothbrush with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.969 billion Toothbrushians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sourire. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Toothbrushian economy, worth a remarkable 1,087 trillion teeth a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 156,029 teeth, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, in a baffling press conference Toothbrush proudly dismantled a broken door, and five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars. Crime is totally unknown. Toothbrush's national animal is the bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Toothbrush is ranked 912^th in the world and 15^th in Refugia for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 142.78 on the Kitten Softness Rating.