The Colony of Taterstan is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 288 million Taterstanis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Taterstani economy, worth 2.03 trillion Taterstani rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 7,051 Taterstani rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, catcalling has been replaced by slut-shaming, cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise, and gambling is outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taterstan's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taterstan is ranked 91,613^th in the world and 1^st in The Pacific Coast for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 90.44 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.