The Kingdom of Twazta is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 285 million Twaztans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Friwal City. The average income tax rate is 16.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Twaztan economy, worth 30.5 trillion Tazzes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 107,120 Tazzes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Vehicle strikes into low bridges are on the increase, people make a career out of medical voyeurism, airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism, and sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Twazta's national animal is the Twastasauraus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Twazta is ranked 191,906^th in the world and 2,824^th in the West Pacific for Safest, scoring 47.75 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.