The Democratic Republic of Tachycardia is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.296 billion 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 enormous 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 79.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tachycardian economy, worth 321 trillion Coronaries a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,629 Coronaries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, and airport security is provided by private companies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tachycardia's national animal is the Woolly Sycophant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tachycardia is ranked 178,945^th in the world and 4,444^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 52.5 billion Standard Monetary Units.