The Family of Tripodi is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its digital currency, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 701 million Tripodians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 62.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Tripodian economy, worth 20.4 trillion Peices a year, is highly specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,119 Peices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and the mentally ill are given high powered automatic weapons for "catharsis therapy". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tripodi's national animal is the whale.

Tripodi is ranked 111,127^th in the world and 4^th in Calabria for Largest Black Market, with 2.21 trillion Standard Monetary Units.