The Democratic State of Tamponberg is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Yuri Thrah with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, enslaved workforce, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.181 billion Tamponbergishes 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cockshire. The average income tax rate is 41.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Tamponbergian economy, worth 72.3 trillion Fleshlights a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,209 Fleshlights, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it, a child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and it's best to decline if Yuri Thrah offers to buy a round of drinks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Tamponberg's national animal is the Horny Toad, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Tamponbergish Mormonism.

Tamponberg is ranked 85,673^rd in the world and 740^th in Europe for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,948.13 on the Gilded Widget Scale.