The Loving Couple of -Thanks-To Them- is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The Unassuming Princess with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.447 billion -Thanks-To Them-ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Human World. The average income tax rate is 54.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving -Thanks-To Them-ian economy, worth 292 trillion snails 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, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 84,830 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, constituents prefer a carrot and boomstick approach to dealing with politicians, and animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Thanks-To Them-'s national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

-Thanks-To Them- is ranked 65,178^th in the world and 25^th in The Maritimes for Most Beautiful Environments, with 627.55 pounds of wildlife per square mile.