The Dominion of Tashijin is a large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic population of 98 million Tashijinians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 15.4%.

The strong Tashijinian economy, worth 6.06 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 61,814 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, people make a career out of medical voyeurism, a soldier's body is a temple, and every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tashijin's national animal is the dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tashijin is ranked 256,020^th in the world and 2,338^th in the Pacific for Largest Populations, with 98.0 million capita.