The Native Republic of Tarterstan is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 950 million Tarterstanis 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Tarterstani economy, worth 36.0 trillion tarterstani baht a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 37,890 tarterstani baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tarterstan's national animal is the Steppe Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Tarterstan is ranked 105,141^st in the world and 7^th in The Pacific Coast for Most Extreme, scoring 23.08 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.