The Republic of TAKTIC-96 is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, devout population of 10.328 billion TAKTIC-96ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.0%.

The frighteningly efficient TAKTIC-96ian economy, worth 990 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,918 Delta Eagles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 283,517 per year while the poor average 25,504, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags, and the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TAKTIC-96's national animal is the Kitsune, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

TAKTIC-96 is ranked 57,468^th in the world and 1^st in Ecumenopolis for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,758.14 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.