The Republic of Thihi is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.024 billion Thihians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Thihian economy, worth 74.7 trillion glasses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 72,994 glasses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, the government is allowing greater autonomy for some regions in the hopes of quelling growing secessionist movements, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Thihi City Natural History Museum, and the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thihi's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Thihi is ranked 265,815^th in the world and 1,195^th in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.49 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.