The Republic of Terword is a massive, genial nation, notable for its lack of airports, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.257 billion Terwordians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Terwordian economy, worth 84.9 trillion dollars 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 led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 19,945 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terword's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Terword is ranked 157,561^st in the world and 7,304^th in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 534.9 on the Gilded Widget Scale.