The Federation of TazLamp is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 949 million TazLampians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 59.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving TazLampian economy, worth 85.9 trillion Pedruniums a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,480 Pedruniums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Protestors are soaking piles of Pedruniums in blood to make a point about government incomes, costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff, the fastest growing demographic of porn viewership is twelve to seventeen, and the Sandmen are calling it a night. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TazLamp's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

TazLamp is ranked 307,575^th in the world and 1,565^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.64 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.