The State of Tarentorous is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 39.248 billion Tarentorousians 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Tarentorousian economy, worth a remarkable 1,299 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Automobile Manufacturing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 33,105 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Governor has just been declared ruler of Tarentorous in an international press conference, interest in globalism never flags, most pop videos prominently feature the Tarentorousian flag, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tarentorous's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tarentorous is ranked 20,171^st in the world and 2^nd in State for Safest, scoring 113.36 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.