The Community of Tropical Land is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by MrTropical with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 17.105 billion Tropical Landians 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, well-organized government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Environment, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of TropicalCity. The average income tax rate is 35.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tropical Landian economy, worth a remarkable 1,660 trillion ious a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Tourism, Retail, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 97,065 ious, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, the legal profession considers itself above the law, standard-issue infantry rifles now have carnations instead of bayonets, and recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tropical Land's national animal is the tapir, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Tropical Land is ranked 214,799^th in the world and 98^th in Nederland for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 49.01 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.