The Colony of The Tender Defenders is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 262 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. The average income tax rate is 15.6%.

The powerhouse Chicken economy, worth 17.0 trillion Nuggets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 64,705 Nuggets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

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, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. 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 189,827^th in the world and 4,036^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.