The Community of Tarduin is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Riki The Tired Leader with an even hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, public floggings, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.911 billion Tarduinians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Grand Capital of Gersinskor. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tarduinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,076 trillion Gelsioks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 182,079 Gelsioks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gun-wielding criminals always wear appropriate eye and ear protection, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (Tarduin has found 1 easter egg), and artists are pillars of society. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tarduin's national animal is the Rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is there is none.

Tarduin is ranked 326,100^th in the world and 17,567^th in Osiris for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 19.11 on the Bus Surprisal Index.