The Astral Realm of Tianh is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Nyarlathotep with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, national health service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.328 billion monsters are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.4%.

The frighteningly efficient local economy, worth 846 trillion virtues a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 101,588 virtues, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 402,939 per year while the poor average 17,296, a ratio of 23.3 to 1.

One little fight can find you movin' to be the fresh prince of Ilba, couples wishing to marry spend months at the circus trying to learn acrobatics, new drivers are driving the nation into a budget hole, and what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tianh's national animal is the crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Tianh is ranked 286,038^th in the world and 1^st in Heaven and Hell for Smartest Citizens, with 14.88 quips per hour.