The Democratic Republic of Tsazay is a very large, socially progressive nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 328 million Tsazayians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 29.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Tsazayian economy, worth 12.3 trillion pangs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,651 pangs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and a broken arm or leg no longer costs an arm and a leg. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tsazay's national animal is the magpie, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Tsazay is ranked 264,368^th in the world and 15,126^th in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 117 billion Standard Monetary Units.