The Colony of The Tender Defenders is a very large, cultured nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 152 million Chickens are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The powerhouse Chicken economy, worth 10.7 trillion Nuggets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 70,101 Nuggets, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 238,059 per year while the poor average 15,229, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Young girls often attend the same schools as their children, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, military spending is on the increase, and children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-Nugget charge on their phone bill. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Tender Defenders's national animal is the Guinea Fowl, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The Tender Defenders is ranked 46,830^th in the world and 1,532^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.