The Totalitarian Regime of Tziklo is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Ketevan Tymoshenko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.658 billion Tzikloans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, 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 Polskov. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tzikloan economy, worth 399 trillion Dollars 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 109,262 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Big Belly is watching you, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, and a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tziklo's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Tziklo is ranked 79,648^th in the world and 794^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 601.36 pounds of wildlife per square mile.