The Empire of Tablantis is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.016 billion Tablantisians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tablencia. The average income tax rate is 67.8%.

The all-consuming Tablantisian economy, worth 94.3 trillion bitcoins 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 92,774 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens, the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation, and the Department of Reduction of Bureaucratic Red Tape has set up a working committee to investigate its own excessive paperwork. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tablantis's national animal is the Platypus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Tablantis is ranked 316,435^th in the world and 114^th in The Pacifica for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 0.58 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.