The Dazzling Array of Minor Tribes is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The CEO with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, avowedly heterosexual populace, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.491 billion Minor Tribesians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Origin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Minor Tribesian economy, worth 455 trillion polar crowns a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 101,417 polar crowns, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 720,260 per year while the poor average 4,742, a ratio of 151 to 1.

The Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook, tumbleweeds made of litter adorn city streets, Origin has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, and the statue in the Berlusconi Plaza has a solar panel for a hat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Minor Tribes's national animal is the kea, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Faith.

Minor Tribes is ranked 115,502^nd in the world and 32^nd in Antarctica for Largest Populations, with 4.49 billion capita.