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The Vengeful Vigilance of Tim-Opolis is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Tim Stark with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, zero percent divorce rate, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 35.936 billion Northerners are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, 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 Winterfell. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The all-consuming Tim-Opolisian economy, worth an astonishing 12,488 trillion Crowns 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 amazing 347,508 Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, homophobia is off the menu, and betting ads have replaced the national anthem at the start of sports matches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tim-Opolis's national animal is the Direwolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Adjeism.

Tim-Opolis is ranked 1,010^th in the world and 3^rd in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Highest Poor Incomes, with 275,471.07 Standard Monetary Units.