The United Kingdom of Trashenda is a tiny, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 9 million Trashendamishals 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 33.4%.

The strong Trashendish economy, worth 566 billion Engloonds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 62,910 Engloonds, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, prisons in Trashenda are the summer homes of murderers, and film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Trashenda's national animal is the Blue lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Trashenda is ranked 191,802^nd in the world and 2,408^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,253.2 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.