The Interim Government of Bythesas is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by President-Regent Milen Holthorn with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 23.631 billion Bythesians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sperasas. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bythesasian economy, worth a remarkable 3,737 trillion Provisional Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 158,180 Provisional Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content, unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder, and airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bythesas's national animal is the Steppe Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dyraism.

Bythesas is ranked 5,455^th in the world and 7^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Developed, scoring 94.13 on the Human Development Index.