The Nation of Turacedran is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Tas with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cynical population of 9.878 billion Turacedranians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Somnus. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The all-consuming Turacedranian economy, worth 928 trillion coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 94,022 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, and veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Turacedran's national animal is the spider, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Turacedran is ranked 31,641^st in the world and 1,153^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 211.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.