The Republic of Saint Thomas sur Mer is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chancellor Meursault with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.312 billion Saint Thomasians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alcasre. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Saint Thomas sur Merian economy, worth a remarkable 8,678 trillion ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 329,821 ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jennifer Government is a bestseller, more and more musicians are refusing to put labels on their sound, debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, and ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks. Crime is totally unknown. Saint Thomas sur Mer's national animal is the dolphin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Saint Thomas sur Mer is ranked 866^th in the world and 3^rd in Federation of Planets Headquarters for Most Cultured, scoring 394 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.