The Republic of TCAM4 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 5.293 billion TCAM4ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 61.4%.

The frighteningly efficient TCAM4ian economy, worth 898 trillion Pesos a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 169,824 Pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, the most popular stadium acts are one-off performances, and passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TCAM4's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TCAM4 is ranked 4,367^th in the world and 322^nd in Balder for Most Armed, with 13.18 weapons per person.