The Empire of TaeKook is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Yoda with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 775 million Jedi's are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Galactic Empire. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jedi economy, worth 71.3 trillion Galactic Credits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,949 Galactic Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The world still seems flat to some people in space, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, and Emperor Yoda has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TaeKook's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

TaeKook is ranked 252,285^th in the world and 1,453^rd in 10000 Islands for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -23 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.