The Commonwealth of Tranquility Antioch is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Sovereign with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.441 billion Tranquility Antiochians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mesopotamia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Tranquility Antiochian economy, worth a remarkable 2,193 trillion Gold coins a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 142,028 Gold coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 444,004 per year while the poor average 34,859, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.

It's rare to find an unchewed pencil, fair play is a sportsbook refusing to pay what it owes, Tranquility Antioch is suspiciously populated compared to its neighbors, and birthday parties feature more pop quizzes than piñatas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tranquility Antioch's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Melchizedek.

Tranquility Antioch is ranked 15,766^th in the world and 6^th in Ancient for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,942.61 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.