The Destructive Albatross of Taylor Allison Swift is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Empress Taylor Swift with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working population of 3.286 billion Tortured Poets have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Tortured Poets Department. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tortured economy, worth 677 trillion albums a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 206,140 albums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 624,019 per year while the poor average 52,988, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

The Tortured war navy contains an oddly large number of luxury yachts and cruise liners, the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis, exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated', and odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas. Crime is totally unknown. Taylor Allison Swift's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Anthology.

Taylor Allison Swift is ranked 274,077^th in the world and 3,574^th in the West Pacific for Safest, scoring 7.95 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.