The Borderlands of Taurgur is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Presence of Taurgur with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.293 billion the Losts are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Spirituality and Law & Order are also considered important, while Welfare and Healthcare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Heart of Taurgur. The average income tax rate is 7.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Taurgurian economy, worth a remarkable 1,764 trillion deaths a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 115,355 deaths, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, survivors receive aid from only the most environmentally-friendly transport, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and the Heart of Taurgur has become the number one destination for urban exploration in Forest. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Taurgur's national animal is the lost soul, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Suicide by Dissapearance.

Taurgur is ranked 297,259^th in the world and 332^nd in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3 law-abiding acts per hour.