The Republic of Tilden and Hendricks is a massive, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, parental licensing program, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.187 billion Tilden and Hendricksians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.1%.

The all-consuming Tilden and Hendricksian economy, worth 106 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,087 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 286,085 per year while the poor average 21,613, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

Corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, there's a bright dawn ahead for Tilden and Hendricks, the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning, and scientists take credit every time it rains in Samuel Tilden. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tilden and Hendricks's national animal is the Tilden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tilden and Hendricks is ranked 310,351^st in the world and 10^th in Samuel Tilden for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.