The Vaudeville Troope of Tap-Dancing Badgers is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 37.085 billion Tap-Dancing Badgers are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.0%.

The all-consuming a Tap-Dancing Badger economy, worth a remarkable 4,723 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 127,362 Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 681,427 per year while the poor average 12,470, a ratio of 54.6 to 1.

The army's shirt ninjas are the most feared assassins in the region, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes, and guns are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Tap-Dancing Badgers's national animal is the Badger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tap-Dancing Badgers is ranked 103,330^th in the world and 2^nd in Federation of Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.48 law-abiding acts per hour.