The Holy Empire of Taustrian Communications Unit is a tiny, pleasant nation, remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 12 million Taustrian Communications Unitians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.3%.

The strong Taustrian Communications Unitian economy, worth 544 billion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 45,394 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Taustrian Communications Unit's national animal is the unicorn.

Taustrian Communications Unit is ranked 136,660^th in the world and 1^st in Telekom for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 478.16 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.