The Watchfires of TOC-1 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 26.565 billion TOC-1ians 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The powerhouse TOC-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,991 trillion $$s a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,976 $$s, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,716 per year while the poor average 20,308, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons, young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force, and the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TOC-1's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

TOC-1 is ranked 95,048^th in the world and 1^st in Bismarck for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,854.77 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.