The Democratic People's Republic of Far Tholk is a titanic, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 20.284 billion Far Tholkians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Far Tholk City. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Far Tholkian economy, worth a remarkable 2,164 trillion gold pieces a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 106,715 gold pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hay has been added to school cafeteria menus, the media seems excessively interested in what Leader is wearing this season, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, and court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Far Tholk's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Far Tholk is ranked 216,256^th in the world and 4^th in The Great Experiment for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 478.97 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.