The Most Serene Republic of Tarisco is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.192 billion Tariscans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.1%.

The very strong Tariscan economy, worth 84.5 trillion Tariscan Doradoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 70,892 Tariscan Doradoes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 283,995 per year while the poor average 11,874, a ratio of 23.9 to 1.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, all tariffs have been abolished, bicyclists are banned from major roads, and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime is moderate. Tarisco's national animal is the Tariscan Great Falcon, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Tarisco is ranked 321,015^th in the world and 17,506^th in Balder for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 258.95 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.