The Republic of Tinkmaster is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.288 billion Tinkmasterians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 51.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Tinkmasterian economy, worth 42.8 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 33,238 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Sick Tinkmasterians are hair today and gone tomorrow, posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft', the wreckages of bombed planes that litter Tinkmaster are highly popular tourist destinations, and parents who try to organize playdates for their kids have police drop through their ceilings. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tinkmaster's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tinkmaster is ranked 207,049^th in the world and 3^rd in Pokopia for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.12 percentage of bribes refused.