The PS2 Puppet of Thalasse is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and lack of airports. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 13.793 billion Thalasseans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thalasse City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Thalassean economy, worth a remarkable 3,827 trillion Flowers a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 277,485 Flowers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by Leader, staffers take uppers in the old upper house chamber, and 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Thalasse's radio stations. Crime is totally unknown. Thalasse's national animal is the Radioactive Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Peace.

Thalasse is ranked 24,925^th in the world and 675^th in the South Pacific for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 284,285 Standard Monetary Units.