The Magnificent SFR of Taustria is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.021 billion sentient human beings enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, 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 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Taustrian economy, worth 596 trillion T£s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 197,486 T£s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, and school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements. Crime is totally unknown. Taustria's national animal is the pyromaniac, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taustria is ranked 32,283^rd in the world and 1^st in Communist Manifesto for Most Cultured, scoring 78 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.