The Lucky and Magnificent SFR of Taustria is a colossal, socially progressive nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.218 billion sentient human beings love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Narwhal. The average income tax rate is 93.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Taustrian economy, worth 649 trillion T£s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 201,663 T£s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, and research grant proposals read like political diatribes. Crime is totally unknown. Taustria's national animal is the pyromaniac, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taustria is ranked 2,488^th in the world and 69^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Developed, scoring 97.75 on the Human Development Index.