The Community of Tiazan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Panjandrum with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 5.537 billion Tiazanas are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of tel'Vosti. The average income tax rate is 94.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Tiazian economy, worth 824 trillion Cantras a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 148,955 Cantras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and Tiazian diplomacy is by the book. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiazan's national animal is the Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Tiazan is ranked 4,991^st in the world and 129^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 565.23 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.