The Confederated Communes of Tessellane is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Grand Loom with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate population of 1.415 billion Tessars are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Tessellanean economy, worth 208 trillion Knits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 147,105 Knits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, escalators are avoided at all costs, 42 is the answer to life the universe and the new bus route into Tessellane City, and the world still seems flat to some people in space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tessellane's national animal is the Silvertail Weaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Tessellane is ranked 226,865^th in the world and 346^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 1.42 billion capita.