The Republic of TAKTIC-73 is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.314 billion TAKTIC-73ians 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.3%.

The all-consuming TAKTIC-73ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,020 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 98,927 Delta Eagles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 281,229 per year while the poor average 27,780, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

A positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TAKTIC-73's national animal is the Kitsune, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

TAKTIC-73 is ranked 15,922^nd in the world and 1^st in TAKTIC for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,889.22 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.