The State of Telford is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.371 billion Telfordians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Telfordian economy, worth 167 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 16,144 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Telford in an international press conference, and Telford has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Telford's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Telford is ranked 65,890^th in the world and 96^th in 0000 for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 466.94 on the Clooney Contribution Index.