Default Taxonomies

I created a custom taxonomy for a custom post type. I am using a taxonomy to have separate post categories and custom post type categories.

My code looks like this: https://pastebin.com/kngiSHgD

Which looks like this in the admin panel: https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/3/screenshot20111128at308.png/

What I want to be able to do is select one of the choices by default.

In other words…in my custom post type, if I create a new post with a title, a description, and choose publish…even if I don’t select one of my taxonomy options…it would select one for me by default – like it does if you don’t choose a category for a regular post.

Any ideas? Thanks,
Josh ??