The Holy Labor Directorate of Tisteklia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Director-General Grimm with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 3.424 billion Tradies 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 enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Social Policy, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Centralex. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Trade economy, worth 407 trillion Arbités a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 118,947 Arbités, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hay has been added to school cafeteria menus, park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, where there's a will there is usually a password manager, and sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tisteklia's national animal is the Cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Tisteklia is ranked 9,544^th in the world and 130^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 90.83 on the Human Development Index.