The Confused and dumb men of Testinginprogress is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by The teacher with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.268 billion Testians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of test. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.2%.

The all-consuming Testinginprogressian economy, worth 396 trillion tests 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 121,363 tests, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society, commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, and the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Testinginprogress's national animal is the test, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Dice.

Testinginprogress is ranked 292,028^th in the world and 1,833^rd in the Plains of Perdition for Nicest Citizens, with 0.49 average smiles per day.