The Socialist Republic of Taterstan is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.737 billion Taterstanis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spudovia. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Taterstani economy, worth 12.2 trillion Taterstani rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 7,011 Taterstani rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The last thing Taterstani soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Taterstani weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taterstan's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taterstan is ranked 102,003^rd in the world and 9^th in The Pacific Coast for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.