The Airplanes of T-A-E is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Your Captain with a fair hand, and renowned for its frequent executions and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 29.65 billion T-A-Eians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Social Policy, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Tarmack. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The very strong T-A-Eian economy, worth a remarkable 1,405 trillion Atlans a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 47,400 Atlans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 157,764 per year while the poor average 10,611, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

The government has implemented minimum wage laws, organ donation is compulsory, T-A-E has designated The Tarmack as its capital city, and Your Captain has just been declared ruler of T-A-E in an international press conference. Crime is moderate. T-A-E's national animal is the seagull and its national religion is Flying.

T-A-E is ranked 132,844^th in the world and 1^st in Route 66 for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 3,871.28 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.