The Commonwealth of Taoist is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by The Great Big Jedi Guru with a fair hand, and renowned for its suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 10.627 billion Taoistians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tao De King City. The average income tax rate is 35.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Taoistian economy, worth 394 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,042 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The ban on cars has been repealed, textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, armed security details escort librarians to their homes, and The Great Big Jedi Guru has just been declared ruler of Taoist in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taoist's national animal is the horse, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Taoist is ranked 265,890^th in the world and 1^st in Trinity for Most Developed, scoring 51.27 on the Human Development Index.