The Protectorate of Cuthe Teropia is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its aversion to nipples, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 2.175 billion Cuthe Teropians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cuthe Teropian economy, worth 274 trillion guilders a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,160 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children, ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences, factories churn out smog to make statues commemorating environmentalism, and kids learn to count without the numbers '0' or '1'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cuthe Teropia's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cuthe Teropia is ranked 16,518^th in the world and 83^rd in Concord for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 3,544.12 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.