The First Tagari Empire of Wek Althgha is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chieftain W'tzan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.445 billion Tagars are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ansh'ghat. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Tagari economy, worth a remarkable 1,092 trillion ㊆-coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 245,823 ㊆-coins, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Chieftain W'tzan's throne, half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, and helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wek Althgha's national animal is the Sandworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Extropianism.

Wek Althgha is ranked 289,592^nd in the world and 10,897^th in Osiris for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2.3 pounds of wildlife per square mile.