The Goated Zone of Workuta Thob is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Colossal Craig with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.806 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, outspoken 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 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Workuta Thobian economy, worth 247 trillion gollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 136,832 gollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, cities are engulfed by smog, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock". Crime is totally unknown. Workuta Thob's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Workuta Thob is ranked 130,192^nd in the world and 232^nd in Horizon for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,815.64 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.