The Borderlands of Tacos Today is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, aversion to nipples, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.543 billion Tacos Todayians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Healthcare, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 83.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Tacos Todayian economy, worth a remarkable 1,809 trillion dollars 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 109,383 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens, on-duty Air Tacos Today flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, transgender and agender are on the education agenda, and Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tacos Today's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Tacos Today is ranked 11,465^th in the world and 648^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 152.01 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.