The Islamic Kingdom of Townsvalley is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by King Adams with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, avant-garde cinema, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.341 billion Civilians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Newlands. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Townsvalley economy, worth 187 trillion Hektes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 80,133 Hektes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification, King Adams is described as an everyday person with normal tastes and the usual interests, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, and paraplegics are told to walk it off. Crime is a problem. Townsvalley's national animal is the Markhor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Townsvalley is ranked 157,113^th in the world and 41^st in Council of Islamic States for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -14.75 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.