The Gold Shroud of Taun is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Kaykaus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 8.561 billion Tau are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaykhshahr. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Tau economy, worth a remarkable 1,463 trillion Taunis a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 170,925 Taunis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 553,303 per year while the poor average 39,873, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

Grandiose stage parents insist superyachts and private cinemas are children's basic needs, crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence, attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, and nefarious Blackacrean surveillance has been replaced with patriotic Tau surveillance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Taun's national animal is the Pallid Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Lion of a Moon.

Taun is ranked 278,884^th in the world and 1,652^nd in the Outback for Fattest Citizens, with 6.26 Obesity Rate.