The Republic of City of Tikhoretsk is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, disturbing lack of elderly people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 786 million City of Tikhoretskians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient City of Tikhoretskian economy, worth 70.1 trillion Ducats a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,124 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked, more and more musicians are refusing to put labels on their sound, and professional athletes juggle part-time jobs to avoid bankruptcy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. City of Tikhoretsk's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

City of Tikhoretsk is ranked 264,724^th in the world and 780^th in Novaya Zemlya for Largest Black Market, with 115 billion Standard Monetary Units.