The Colony of The Tender Defenders is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, avowedly heterosexual populace, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 198 million Chickens are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The powerhouse Chicken economy, worth 13.9 trillion Nuggets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 70,101 Nuggets, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 238,059 per year while the poor average 15,229, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Young girls often attend the same schools as their children, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, military spending is on the increase, and children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-Nugget charge on their phone bill. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Tender Defenders's national animal is the Guinea Fowl, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The Tender Defenders is ranked 36,548^th in the world and 702^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 5,659.23 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.