The Dimensional Hub of The Temple of Tan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Flethan with an iron fist, and renowned for its digital currency, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.474 billion Tannites 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 juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tan. The average income tax rate is 33.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Tannite economy, worth 685 trillion Server Books 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. 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 80,952 Server Books, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and machine gun nests. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Temple of Tan's national animal is the pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Temple of Tan is ranked 271,177^th in the world and 5^th in Fraecia for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -5.67 on the Hickory Productivity Index.