The Republic of TAKTIC-03 is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 10.599 billion TAKTIC-03ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Public Transport are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 26.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant TAKTIC-03ian economy, worth 154 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 14,594 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The entire entry for TAKTIC-03 in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', TAKTIC-03 City has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences, and TAKTIC-03 recently decided against having a capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. TAKTIC-03's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TAKTIC-03 is ranked 289,949^th in the world and 1^st in the autocratic islamic league for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,639.77 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.