The Principality of Trotterdam is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful, devout population of 19.937 billion Trotterdammers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry and Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trotterdam. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Trotterdam economy, worth a remarkable 8,559 trillion bits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 429,337 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, many aides in Leader's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, and the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers. Crime is totally unknown. Trotterdam's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Harmony.

Trotterdam is ranked 138,476^th in the world and 98^th in Pony Lands for Largest Black Market, with 185 billion Standard Monetary Units.