The Fourth Republic of Taigama is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Empress Saei Mei with an even hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 6.623 billion Taigamese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madarin. The average income tax rate is 63.5%.

The strong Taigaman economy, worth 480 trillion Kais a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 72,561 Kais, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Empress Saei Mei is a silly poophead, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taigama's national animal is the Peacock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Jaismist Christan Church.

Taigama is ranked 53,897^th in the world and 1,222^nd in the South Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,241.72 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.