The Federation of Tageszentia is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Aparicio Varela with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 950 million Tageszentians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ushwaia. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Tageszentian economy, worth 52.1 trillion australs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,852 australs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopian villagers starve by the time Tageszentian officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them, treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, and one can wake up in Tageszentia and have breakfast in Bigtopia. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tageszentia's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Tageszentia is ranked 32,190^th in the world and 108^th in Refugia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.58 law-abiding acts per hour.