The Empire of Taxopia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 2.697 billion Taxopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 46.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Taxopian economy, worth 55.6 trillion Ducats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 20,627 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Confused-looking pigeons slide gently off frictionless window ledges, the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, the diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room, and teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taxopia's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taxopia is ranked 317,640^th in the world and 50^th in Swabia for Most Developed, scoring 46.4 on the Human Development Index.