The Most Serene Republic of Torregal is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Róise Fitzgerald with an iron fist, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, compulsory vegetarianism, and national health service. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 17.577 billion Torregalese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Láirge. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Torregalese economy, worth a remarkable 5,300 trillion punts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 301,554 punts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper, political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions, and Port Láirge has become the number one destination for urban exploration in Holy Land. Crime is totally unknown. Torregal's national animal is the raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Anarcha-feminism.

Torregal is ranked 201^st in the world and 1^st in Holy Land for Most Pacifist, with 310.46 cheeks turned per day.