The Republic of Talk Island is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, devout population of 3.028 billion Talk Islandians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Talk Islandian economy, worth 278 trillion Golds a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,016 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", and ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Talk Island's national animal is the Clam, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Talk Island is ranked 75,843^rd in the world and 480^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 102.47 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.