The Republic of Happy Tilden is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.17 billion Happy Tildenians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Happy Tildenian economy, worth 127 trillion Ducats a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 108,772 Ducats, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, party leaders rely on horoscopes to create "ticket balance", Happy Tildenian dissenters are begging human rights groups to ignore them, and going on a diet invalidates your passport. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Happy Tilden's national animal is the Tilden, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Happy Tilden is ranked 46,081^st in the world and 5^th in Samuel Tilden for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,070.3 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.