The Empire of Tayichi is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Takeda Nobuo with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 5.034 billion Tayichians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shuto. The average income tax rate is 23.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tayichian economy, worth 648 trillion Kins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 128,906 Kins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, visiting the best Tayichian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation, and the industries of Tayichi are coughing all the way to the bank. Crime is totally unknown. Tayichi's national animal is the Ryu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shinkyo.

Tayichi is ranked 277,564^th in the world and 107^th in Lands End for Most Conservative, scoring 30.25 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.