The Grand Duchy of Tralim is a tiny, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 12 million Tralimians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 51.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Tralimian economy, worth 464 billion Gold Kelarniuses 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, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. 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 38,644 Gold Kelarniuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

People often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time, politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, and policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tralim's national animal is the Musk Ox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tralim is ranked 255,856^th in the world and 17^th in Kellick Isles for Nicest Citizens, with 6.19 average smiles per day.