The Kingdom of Tammen is a tiny, cultured nation, remarkable for its public floggings, avowedly heterosexual populace, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 16 million Tammenians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 11.7%.

The thriving Tammenian economy, worth 943 billion Kroons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 58,951 Kroons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative', hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success, parents are held criminally responsible for their children's crimes, and charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Tammen's national animal is the white mountain goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tammen is ranked 195,858^th in the world and 2^nd in Scandwell for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -3 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.