The Republic of Thesulyssia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 244 million Thesulyssians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Thesulyssian economy, worth 6.81 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is 27,901 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vaccinations are mandatory, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, Thesulyssian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, and old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thesulyssia's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Thesulyssia is ranked 82,856^th in the world and 128^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.22 law-abiding acts per hour.