The Mercenary Band of Talon Compani is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Commander Jabsco with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 12.704 billion Talon Companians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Bannister. The average income tax rate is 72.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Talon Companian economy, worth a remarkable 2,201 trillion Caps a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 173,262 Caps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The Fort Bannister Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative, students can name the chiefs of proto-Bigtopian tribes before they can count to ten, scrapyards are filled with Commander Jabsco's face, and tweenage nobles order army regiments to do their homework for them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Talon Compani's national animal is the Wastelander, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Talonism.

Talon Compani is ranked 27,240^th in the world and 31^st in Shadow Realms for Most Developed, scoring 84.36 on the Human Development Index.