The Republic of Townsvalley is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, triple-decker prams, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.444 billion Citizens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, with Environment, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Newlands. The average income tax rate is 11.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Townsvalleyian economy, worth 727 trillion Hektes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. 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 86,192 Hektes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

International terrorists often get their weapons supply in Townsvalley, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, imitation is the sincerest form of felony, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive. Townsvalley's national animal is the Markhor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Townsvalley is ranked 5,500^th in the world and 136^th in The North Pacific for Most Armed, with 12.42 weapons per person.