The Benevolent Celestial Tsardom of Tuldar is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Tsar Alexei Vasiliev ♔ with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.51 billion Tuldarians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volkograd ★. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.6%.

The all-consuming Tuldarian economy, worth 521 trillion Kolkrub Ꝅs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 94,724 Kolkrub Ꝅs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 301,764 per year while the poor average 22,620, a ratio of 13.3 to 1.

Bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, state secrets now include elementary schoolchildren's notebooks, and the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tuldar's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox ☦.

Tuldar is ranked 29,870^th in the world and 1^st in The Sliver Coast for Largest Black Market, with 64.4 trillion Standard Monetary Units.