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The Insular Area of Treasure Point is a massive, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, triple-decker prams, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.049 billion Treasure Pointians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 69.1%.

The strong Treasure Pointian economy, worth 179 trillion Imperial 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 87,549 Imperial Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

The long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, an extra hand on the leg will give a horse-and-a-half of lead in a hundred jiffies on seven furlongs, the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Treasure Point City, and hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Treasure Point's national animal is the Island Doggo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Treasure Point is ranked 305,913^th in the world and 4^th in Sands for Most Cultured, scoring 36 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.