The People's Republic of Timisstan is a small, cultured nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 32 million Timisstanians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Timisstanian economy, worth 854 billion BancnoTIMs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 26,699 BancnoTIMs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors, they who do not work shall not eat, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, and recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Timisstan's national animal is the Cocostarc, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Timisstan is ranked 318,435^th in the world and 566^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -9.85 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.