The Republic of Taylor Swift Lands is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 286 million Swifties 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 tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Taylor Swift City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The all-consuming Swiftie economy, worth 25.1 trillion Eras a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 87,759 Eras, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 350,863 per year while the poor average 14,747, a ratio of 23.8 to 1.

Pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil, actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs, not even good behaviour will get transgender inmates any special perks, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Taylor Swift Lands's new capital. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Taylor Swift Lands's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Taylor Swift Lands is ranked 238,751^st in the world and 5,686^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 55.15 law-abiding acts per hour.