The Most Serene Islands of Talvezout is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Ana Sofía Sáenz with a fair hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.393 billion Talvezians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Marcos. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Talvezian economy, worth a remarkable 1,813 trillion Golden Tavares a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 174,480 Golden Tavares, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Referenda are held for every conceivable government action, one does not simply walk into the tundra, rumor has it that President Ana Sofía Sáenz has won three lotteries in a row, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime is totally unknown. Talvezout's national animal is the monk seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Talvezout is ranked 2,232^nd in the world and 128^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 97.39 on the Human Development Index.