The Austral Confederacy of Thycinia is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 919 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 Law & Order, Defense, 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 89.6 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.

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, public shaming is the bedrock of Thycene society, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Thycinia in an international press conference. 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 249,194^th in the world and 17^th in The Charter for Longest Average Lifespans, with 64.18 years.