The Loving Couple of ThanksTo Them- is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Porter with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.506 billion ThanksTo Them-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gravesfield. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.0%.

The frighteningly efficient ThanksTo Them-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,069 trillion snails a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 125,685 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 440,227 per year while the poor average 26,054, a ratio of 16.9 to 1.

Blood stains the floors of the execution room and the hands of the state, foundling babies rarely make it off the doorsteps they are abandoned on, gold stars and candy are said to be the best way to Porter's heart, and suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. ThanksTo Them-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

ThanksTo Them- is ranked 167,691^st in the world and 28^th in The Genesis Corporation for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.