The Confederacy of Tortugashima is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Master Splinter with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and enforced nudity. The devout population of 7.17 billion Tortugans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New York City. The average income tax rate is 49.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Turtleshelled economy, worth 826 trillion pizze al taglio shurikens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 115,328 pizze al taglio shurikens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary, historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre, and rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tortugashima's national animal is the ninja turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Ninjutsu.

Tortugashima is ranked 41,409^th in the world and 3^rd in Archai for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 726.18 on the Clooney Contribution Index.