The Federal Republic of Trattativa is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 3.547 billion Trattativans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kōhei-sei. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Trattativan economy, worth 161 trillion Ricchezzas a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,546 Ricchezzas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, and East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trattativa's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Trattativa is ranked 40,733^rd in the world and 129^th in Refugia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.4 law-abiding acts per hour.