The Austral Confederacy of Thycinia is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, feral children, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 780 million Thyceni are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wælmingsby. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.3%.

The powerhouse Thycene economy, worth 76.0 trillion Tremisses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 97,463 Tremisses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 362,912 per year while the poor average 18,372, a ratio of 19.8 to 1.

Out-of-work actors say they can't complain, foreign nations often blame poverty and terrorism on Thycene selfishness, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, and public shaming is the bedrock of Thycene society. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Thycinia's national animal is the Grey Goshawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Thycinia is ranked 133,383^rd in the world and 8^th in The Charter for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,949.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.