The Imperium of Tinfect is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Irrell Levant with an even hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 17.17 billion Imperials are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Kol. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The enormous but inefficient Imperial economy, worth a remarkable 1,536 trillion Iron Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 89,492 Iron Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous Imperial bee, euthanasia is legal, Irrell Levant's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, and the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tinfect's national animal is the Mini Drone, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tinfect is ranked 12,595^th in the world and 674^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 347.54 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.