The Republic of Tancy is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 744 million Tancyians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Tancyian economy, worth 86.5 trillion Bombs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 116,221 Bombs, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Calling dibs is an unalienable right, citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, and the nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low. Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. Tancy's national animal is the Sleepy Koala, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tancy is ranked 247,819^th in the world and 25^th in Antisipation Refounded for Safest, scoring 23.91 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.