The Wastelands of Nothreen is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Godfather with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, disturbing lack of elderly people, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 19.611 billion Nothreenians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Environment receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Efyuberg. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Nothreeny economy, worth an astonishing 11,889 trillion goldeens a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 606,260 goldeens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,654,668 per year while the poor average 5,757, a ratio of 982 to 1.

Godfather's relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will, the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary, chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, and the most recent election was a close race between Godfather and Godfather. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Nothreen's national animal is the Cockroach, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Knockism.

Nothreen is ranked 29^th in the world and 2^nd in the South Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 541 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.