The District of Tennera is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by privy council chairman with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 22.516 billion Tennerans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Tenneran economy, worth 86.3 trillion juno aurums 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 Retail, Tourism, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. 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 3,832 juno aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it, ghost regiments exist only on paper, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tennera's national animal is the quick pink fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tennera is ranked 283,005^th in the world and 1^st in Islamabad for Highest Poor Incomes, with 3,832.62 Standard Monetary Units.