The Thedian Cavalry of SwordandShield26 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its frequent executions, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 3.433 billion SwordandShield26ians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.1%.

The very strong SwordandShield26ian economy, worth 213 trillion flames a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 62,283 flames, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 235,409 per year while the poor average 11,465, a ratio of 20.5 to 1.

Health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water, the entire entry for SwordandShield26 in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', it's widely agreed that to tennis players love means nothing, and engaged partners detail their fiancés' private lives in detail to prurient bureaucrats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SwordandShield26's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SwordandShield26 is ranked 67,633^rd in the world and 1,460^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Politically Free, scoring 75.33 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.