The Union of Tinis is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by First Speaker Waldo with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, national health service, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, humorless, devout population of 48.664 billion Tinisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arx. The income tax rate is 100%.

The large but stagnant Tinisian economy, worth 721 trillion Gerbiles a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 14,834 Gerbiles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tinis's national animal is the dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Glorvanism.

Tinis is ranked 535^th in the world and 3^rd in The Furry Federation for Nicest Citizens, with 111.06 average smiles per day.