The Turquoise State of Turquoise Taun is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Young Griff with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.751 billion Turquoise Taunians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tau-qu-tau. The average income tax rate is 50.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Turquoise Taunian economy, worth 270 trillion taus a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,835 taus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young Griff can't hear a thing when the unwashed masses throw rocks at the new state limousine, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, tourists are forbidden to enter Native Turquoise Taunian lands, and police protocol is to arrest anyone who looks a bit foreign. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Turquoise Taun's national animal is the sassy sea turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Turquoise Taun is ranked 144,155^th in the world and 7,769^th in Lazarus for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,010.16 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.