The Treacherous Travails of Taungu is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Shwenankyawshin with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, vat-grown people, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 13.083 billion Taunguans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mandalay. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Taunguan economy, worth a remarkable 2,180 trillion Gold Taus a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 166,644 Gold Taus, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,117,088 per year while the poor average 9,340, a ratio of 119 to 1.

It can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, air purifiers fight smoke machines on Taunguan stage setups, and you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence. Crime is totally unknown. Taungu's national animal is the Crow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Shibe.

Taungu is ranked 270,154^th in the world and 362^nd in Thaecia for Most Income Equality, scoring 0.84 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.