The Theocracy of Jhtalith is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Patriarch Ledenkal Verlend with an iron fist, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.282 billion Jhtalithians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rood. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Jhtalithian economy, worth a remarkable 1,833 trillion Calis a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,165 Calis, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

The morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production, and ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka. Crime is moderate. Jhtalith's national animal is the bluebird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is a major religion.

Jhtalith is ranked 276,609^th in the world and 48^th in Civiles Conservare for Most Beautiful Environments, with 7.16 pounds of wildlife per square mile.