The Empire of Tay-mania is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Tree Paine with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.418 billion Tay-manians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cornelia Street. The average income tax rate is 86.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tay-manian economy, worth 186 trillion taylor dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,703 taylor dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step, industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tay-mania's national animal is the seagull, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Swiftianity.

Tay-mania is ranked 249,607^th in the world and 229^th in Refugia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.38 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.