The Democratic Republic of Tachycardia is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.978 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 80.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tachycardian economy, worth 386 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 97,154 Coronaries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

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, airport security is provided by private companies, and there is a dearth of space for new houses. 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 214,796^th in the world and 8,028^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -279.42 on the Scary Big Number Scale.