The Cosmic Attitude Adjustment of Tachanka is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 36.781 billion Tachankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The all-consuming Tachankan economy, worth a remarkable 4,360 trillion Makhnoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 118,561 Makhnoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Restaurants cater to pregnancy cravings, trains and passengers alike are often late, clothing with a scarlet S is popular among repentant body shamers, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime is totally unknown. Tachanka's national animal is the Nestor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tachanka is ranked 21,807^th in the world and 1^st in Kashmir for Most Developed, scoring 86.58 on the Human Development Index.