The Colony of Tas Bardes is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, strictly enforced bedtime, and national health service. The compassionate population of 1.667 billion Tas Bardesians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Tas Bardesian economy, worth 166 trillion Leafcoins a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,684 Leafcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, candidates for public office painstakingly research their family trees to ensure their eligibility, government leaders testify at international tribunals on why the sun went out, and Maxtopian villagers starve by the time Tas Bardesian officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tas Bardes's national animal is the Whispering Willow Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tas Bardes is ranked 307,873^rd in the world and 1,203^rd in Concord for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -12.07 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.