The Republic of Thelanian is a mid-sized, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 86 million Thelanianians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.3%.

The thriving Thelanianian economy, worth 6.62 trillion Rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 77,014 Rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 240,011 per year while the poor average 18,987, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

People who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, the government is constantly playing a game of four-dimensional economic chess with health insurance firms, every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor, and foreign students are expected to have a Kegmeister Grade Average of 36-24-36 to qualify for university. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. Thelanian's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thelanian is ranked 92,183^rd in the world and 72^nd in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Highest Average Incomes, with 77,014.2 Standard Monetary Units.