The Goated Zone of Workuta Thob is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Colossal Craig with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.649 billion Thobians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thobopolis. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Workuta Thobian economy, worth 222 trillion gollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 135,191 gollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and foreign leaders are advising that Colossal Craig's letters must have gotten lost in the mail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Workuta Thob's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Workuta Thob is ranked 244,988^th in the world and 666^th in Horizon for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.65 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.