The Democratic Republic of Tachycardia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 319 million Tachycardians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Denial. The average income tax rate is 24.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Tachycardian economy, worth 15.6 trillion Coronaries a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,771 Coronaries, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, the government is financing an extremely costly war against malaria, one does not simply walk into the tundra, and community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tachycardia's national animal is the Cashcow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tachycardia is ranked 56,300^th in the world and 3,040^th in The North Pacific for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 66.72 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.