The People's Republic of Tigatestan is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 644 million Tigatestanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Tigatestanian economy, worth 43.6 trillion lorens a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,765 lorens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, insanely good theatre productions face government censorship, and former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tigatestan's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tigatestan is ranked 46,608^th in the world and 1,511^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.