The Kingdom of Tallenn is a mid-sized, cultured nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 99 million Tallens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 43.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Tallennian economy, worth 5.98 trillion Rubles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,403 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under, the official Tallennian Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, and most citizens in Tallenn are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tallenn's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tallenn is ranked 57,165^th in the world and 71^st in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,964.41 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.