The Democratic States of Tashua is a very large, safe nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 357 million Tashuans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.3%.

The Tashuan economy, worth 24.0 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,209 Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

It's said that a Tashuan always pays his debts with significant compounding, the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, oilmen are in the business of greasing people's palms, and the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tashua's national animal is the Peregrine Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Tashua is ranked 107,906^th in the world and 216^th in Christians for Highest Average Incomes, with 67,209.24 Standard Monetary Units.