The Republic of Sad Tilden is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.113 billion Sad Tildenians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Sad Tildenian economy, worth 114 trillion Ducats a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,483 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 356,473 per year while the poor average 21,471, a ratio of 16.6 to 1.

Hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide, a positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, and morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sad Tilden's national animal is the Tilden, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sad Tilden is ranked 291,872^nd in the world and 10^th in Samuel Tilden for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.26 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.