The Lonely Tank Planet of Tachan is a colossal, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 6.161 billion Tach are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Tachan. The average income tax rate is 36.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Tacha economy, worth 286 trillion Rounds 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 46,516 Rounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, and the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tachan's national animal is the Maus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tachan is ranked 175,906^th in the world and 24^th in The Milky Way Galaxy for Most Pro-Market, scoring -71.38 on the Rand Index.