The Republic of Tashalin is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Administrative Command with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 612 million Tashali, 583 million of whom are zombies, are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Altan Kherem. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tasharan economy, worth 503 trillion Rations a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 164,601 Rations, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,441,336 per year while the poor average 2,838, a ratio of 507 to 1.

Stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, there's nothing more Tasharan than revanchism, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and many aides in Administrative Command's office are known to be serial jaywalkers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tashalin's national animal is the Snow Leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Tashinism.

Tashalin is ranked 305,417^th in the world and 2,189^th in the Rejected Realms for Nudest, with 11 cheeks per square mile.