The People's Republic of Tineman is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 386 million Tinemanis 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Echia City. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Tinemani economy, worth 21.0 trillion Rittakas 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 led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 54,381 Rittakas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion, male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', the government tells its citizens to 'forgive and forget', and flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tineman's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tineman is ranked 103,432^nd in the world and 4,049^th in the South Pacific for Most Politically Free, scoring 64.67 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.