The People's Republic of Tanau is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chan Chi-Wai with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.279 billion Tanauans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Komyo. The average income tax rate is 84.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tanauan economy, worth 166 trillion koroas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 130,039 koroas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper, the nation leads the Pacific in per capita stalking, one man's trash is another company's tax break, and any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tanau's national animal is the lionfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Tanau is ranked 312,484^th in the world and 2,919^th in the Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.