The Confederacy of Taloxia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and parental licensing program. The cynical population of 492 million Taloxians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Talvalor. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Taloxian economy, worth 26.6 trillion Tridons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 54,043 Tridons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are no more heroes any more, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Taloxian grocery store, and political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taloxia's national animal is the The great minotaur, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Taloxia is ranked 54,996^th in the world and 1,675^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.