The People's Republic of Terlas is a huge, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 948 million Terlasians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shanhong. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Terlasian economy, worth 71.9 trillion remimbis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 75,856 remimbis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments, and Leader's campaign events reach their climax when the celebrity endorsers reveal themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terlas's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terlas is ranked 145,932^nd in the world and 677^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -2 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.