The Queendom of Tristan is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.746 billion Tristanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.9%.

The Tristanian economy, worth 536 trillion quantum pieces 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 61,357 quantum pieces, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes, society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy, and guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tristan's national animal is the servant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tristan is ranked 71,666^th in the world and 41^st in Remembrance for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 134.34 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.