The Republic of Tamarvand is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Grand Pooh-Bah Gilbert Sullivan with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, digital currency, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 6.948 billion Tamaraneans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Demonsreach. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Tamaran economy, worth a remarkable 1,250 trillion Liens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 180,005 Liens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Protests are legal but strictly supervised, stuttering trypanophobes are doomed never to marry, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tamarvand's national animal is the Bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Foundationism.

Tamarvand is ranked 4,584^th in the world and 245^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,458.2 pounds of wildlife per square mile.