The Armed Republic of Tackastan is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Tack the Great with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 1.751 billion Tackastanians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Athad. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tackastanian economy, worth 215 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 123,153 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Much of Tackastan's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, Tack the Great's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, and the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tackastan's national animal is the Orcinus orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Tackastan is ranked 30,367^th in the world and 300^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 97.1 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.