The Commonwealth of Tohrun is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 326 million Tohrunese 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tohrunian economy, worth 14.5 trillion heyoes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,599 heyoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, and the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tohrun's national animal is the sky monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tohrun is ranked 61,223^rd in the world and 653^rd in Europe for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.54 law-abiding acts per hour.