The Locomotive of Train is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Casey Jones with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, ban on automobiles, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 27.963 billion engineers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the City of New Orleans. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient railway economy, worth a remarkable 4,391 trillion couplers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 157,037 couplers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Train, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, and only those who apply can study applied maths. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Train's national animal is the iron horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unstoppable.

Train is ranked 81,625^th in the world and 12^th in Seinfeld for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,731.04 on the Hickory Productivity Index.