The Free Dawsinian Colony of Talgarth is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Elder Cyrus Middleton with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 10.402 billion Talgarthians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cardiff. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Talgarthian economy, worth 940 trillion Pound Sterlings a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 90,463 Pound Sterlings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Art criticism in Talgarth is scathingly destructive, prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows, crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters, and the fattest folk in Talgarth look to be the happiest ones. Crime is relatively low. Talgarth's national animal is the Ent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Entism.

Talgarth is ranked 33,049^th in the world and 55^th in Forest for Highest Drug Use, scoring 106.4 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.