The Peoples Democratic Republic of Taosun is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Chairman Jing Heng with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.509 billion comrades are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyoshyen. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The large but underdeveloped Tzuni economy, worth 265 trillion Labour Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 105,859 Labour Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, foreign nationals are widely distrusted, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, and politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taosun's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Jing Heng Cult of Personality.

Taosun is ranked 90,806^th in the world and 13^th in East Asia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,734.56 on the Gilded Widget Scale.