The Republic of Thorestantia is a massive, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 1.157 billion Thorestantians 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 tiny government prioritizes Defense, with Welfare, Education, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Law & Order and International Aid aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 7.4%.

The strong Thorestantian economy, worth 62.7 trillion kronor a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. Average income is 54,213 kronor, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

Those who sing the national anthem off-key have the key thrown away, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and colonial subjects have Thorestantian culture shoved down their throats. Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. Thorestantia's national animal is the porpoise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Thorestantia is ranked 185,904^th in the world and 376^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 53.01 on the Human Development Index.