The Principality of Talakmakan is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 213 million Talakmakanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 65.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Talakmakanian economy, worth 7.72 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 36,251 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade, and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Talakmakan's national animal is the Vini Peruviana, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Talakmakan is ranked 243,237^th in the world and 227^th in Refugia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.78 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.