The Empire of Tarabit is a massive, safe nation, ruled by ines the cool with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 1.09 billion witches are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of cypher land. The average income tax rate is 33.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Tarabitian economy, worth 54.0 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,513 snails, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, being ines the cool has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers, and programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tarabit's national animal is the eyeball bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Tarabit is ranked 61,635^th in the world and 1^st in a cool place for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 1,291.7 on the Societal Mobility Rating.