The United Socialist States of TamNam is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 178 million TamNamians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant TamNamian economy, worth 3.03 trillion TamQuocHaos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 17,033 TamQuocHaos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, the TamNamian Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas, the love has gone in TamNam, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TamNam's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TamNam is ranked 102,835^th in the world and 2,575^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 14.8 flags saluted per person per day.