The Empire of Tarendoor is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Dylan Matthews with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cynical population of 16.331 billion Tarendoorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barendwell. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tarendoorian economy, worth a remarkable 2,471 trillion Denariis a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 151,313 Denariis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from Dylan Matthews's rear echelons, people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service, and toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tarendoor's national animal is the Hydra, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Tarendoor is ranked 3,518^th in the world and 160^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 125.66 law-abiding acts per hour.