The Swiftly Tilting Land of Tsunamy is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by L Woods with a fair hand, and notable for its lack of airports, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.504 billion Tsunami are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vertigo City. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The thriving Tsunami economy, worth a remarkable 2,127 trillion verts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 86,834 verts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, the 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, and drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tsunamy's national animal is the glittered hamster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tsunamy is ranked 119,266^th in the world and 5,466^th in the South Pacific for Most Pro-Market, scoring 32.89 on the Rand Index.