The Empire of The 12th Choice is a massive, pleasant nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.306 billion 12th Choiceans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 33.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped 12th Choicean economy, worth 51.3 trillion baht a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 39,316 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is rumored to hire body doubles whose full-time jobs are to cry at public events, police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, millions of 12th Choiceans are excellent swimmers, and bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. The 12th Choice's national animal is the Kurivolt, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The 12th Choice is ranked 262,797^th in the world and 11^th in The Choices for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring zero on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.