The Shadowy Communist Menace of Taustrian Intelligence Agency is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 855 million Taustrian Intelligence Agencyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 34.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Taustrian Intelligence Agencyian economy, worth 8.33 trillion tokens of information a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 9,742 tokens of information, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taustrian Intelligence Agency's national animal is the phantom.

Taustrian Intelligence Agency is ranked 169,684^th in the world and 18^th in Phantom for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 67.08 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.