The Liberated People of Tharist Fon is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by The Overseer with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.48 billion Tharist Fonians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Haven. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tharist Fonian economy, worth 873 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 92,149 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', and rocket boots and thermal detonators have become standard-issue military gear. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tharist Fon's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tharist Fon is ranked 26,139^th in the world and 8^th in Cynosure for Lowest Crime Rates, with 85.16 law-abiding acts per hour.