The Democratic Republic of Tanius is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.755 billion Tanasians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tanius City. The average income tax rate is 65.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Taniusian economy, worth 181 trillion Tansanis a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,461 Tansanis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Living well is no longer the best kind of revenge, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tanius's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tanius is ranked 37,798^th in the world and 1,294^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.