The Republic of Tafat is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 62 million Tafats are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Tafat economy, worth 1.48 trillion Idrimens 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is 23,923 Idrimens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, and parliamentarians prepare for marathon speeches with drinking hats and nappies. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tafat's national animal is the Capibara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tafat is ranked 26,107^th in the world and 603^rd in The Communist Bloc for Safest, scoring 110.86 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.