The Confederacy of Thousand Selves is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 102 million Selves 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 37.9%.

The Requiem economy, worth 4.73 trillion Emitters a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 46,362 Emitters, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Thousand Selves City Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years, tax assessment offices double as polling stations, a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills, and speeches have been enlivened since Leader started spitting bars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thousand Selves's national animal is the Aizawin Polar Bear, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Thousand Selves is ranked 100,571^st in the world and 9^th in Corvinia Refounded for Longest Average Lifespans, with 73.54 years.