The Colony of The Tender Defenders is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 124 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 10.5%.

The powerhouse Chicken economy, worth 8.54 trillion Nuggets a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 68,860 Nuggets, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 233,845 per year while the poor average 14,959, 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 teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Tender Defenders is ranked 233,199^th in the world and 5,601^st in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 56.02 law-abiding acts per hour.