The Magnificent SFR of Taustria is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.05 billion sentient human beings love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Narwhal. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Taustrian economy, worth 601 trillion T£s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 197,117 T£s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It turns out you can teach cats new tricks, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, and much of Taustria's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence. Crime is totally unknown. Taustria's national animal is the pyromaniac, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taustria is ranked 9,786^th in the world and 228^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,609.12 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.