The Penguin Local Councillor of Trivalve is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Indra Cormac with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 2.517 billion Trivalveans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hivemind. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Trivalvean economy, worth 376 trillion Kyanites a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 149,542 Kyanites, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, voting is voluntary, the seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers, and the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause. Crime is totally unknown. Trivalve's national animal is the Pinnacarid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Trivalve is ranked 137,214^th in the world and 6,063^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,275.63 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.