The Principality of Townside is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Prince Zackery Carlisle with an even hand, and renowned for its digital currency, ubiquitous missile silos, and national health service. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 19.276 billion Townsiders have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Healthcare, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Borough of the Town Beside the Sea. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Townside economy, worth a remarkable 5,125 trillion Townsider Kilogramme Silvers a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 265,876 Townsider Kilogramme Silvers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder, celebrity chefs are thought to be the progenitors of all food, main battle tanks stalk the woods of Townside in search of Enfields, and nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Townside's national animal is the Enfield, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Townside.

Townside is ranked 2,260^th in the world and 3^rd in The Western Isles for Largest Black Market, with 4,369 trillion Standard Monetary Units.