The Most Serene Republic of Illuminous Tee Swirl is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Lady Gray with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 836 million Illuminous Tee Swirlians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jasmine Green. The average income tax rate is 84.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Illuminous Tee Swirlian economy, worth 82.5 trillion Tea Leaveses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 98,682 Tea Leaveses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lady Gray has more friends than ever before, the government has been criticized for giving away Illuminous Tee Swirl's territory to anyone who claims it, one can wake up in Illuminous Tee Swirl and have breakfast in Bigtopia, and things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Illuminous Tee Swirl's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Illuminous Tee Swirl is ranked 311,432^nd in the world and 298^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -9.49 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.