The Least Serene Republic of Tmutarakhan is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sidney Hussein Robinette with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, enforced nudity, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 35.552 billion Tmutarakhanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Policy, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phanagoria. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tmutarakhanian economy, worth a remarkable 4,375 trillion m and ms a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 123,071 m and ms, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, Sidney Hussein Robinette's campaign events reach their climax when the celebrity endorsers reveal themselves, young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, and orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tmutarakhan's national animal is the tripod, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fundamentalist Taoism.

Tmutarakhan is ranked 29,891^st in the world and 3^rd in The Nudist Dreamland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 82.78 law-abiding acts per hour.