The Community of Tantia is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.764 billion Tantians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hydra. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Tantian economy, worth 227 trillion florins a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,793 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group hugs break out during floor votes, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, fruit pickers with degrees in penguin psychology are a common sight, and programmers often reinvent the wheel. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tantia's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Tantia is ranked 22,301^st in the world and 715^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,722.62 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.