The United States of Tembetary is a massive, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 3.81 billion Tembetaryians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 17.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Tembetaryian economy, worth 147 trillion betales 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, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. 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 38,827 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and all tariffs have been abolished. Crime is totally unknown. Tembetary's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tembetary is ranked 138,898^th in the world and 1^st in Asuncion for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 102.67 on the Clooney Contribution Index.