The Republic of Taarcaster is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 980 million Taarcasterians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 34.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Taarcasterian economy, worth 43.6 trillion Talons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,524 Talons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population, the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taarcaster's national animal is the Frog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taarcaster is ranked 201,693^rd in the world and 2^nd in Hydration Nation for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 29,208.34 Standard Monetary Units.