The Constitutional Monarchy of Tayichi is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 751 million Tayichians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shuto. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Tayichian economy, worth 84.7 trillion Okanes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 112,817 Okanes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 499,831 per year while the poor average 15,902, a ratio of 31.4 to 1.

9 out of 10 consumers think that vitamins can cure cancer, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, and the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Shuto for fear of causing a fuss. Crime is totally unknown. Tayichi's national animal is the Ryu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tayichi is ranked 6,703^rd in the world and 29^th in Lands End for Largest Retail Industry, scoring 15,862.86 on the Shrinkwrap Consignment Productivity Index.