The United People's Union of Tharvoss is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Anya Kresimir Volenko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.401 billion Tharvossians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grathorn City. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Tharvossian economy, worth 121 trillion Tharns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,375 Tharns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention, and nations across the world are quick to praise Anya Kresimir Volenko's good looks and intellectual prowess. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tharvoss's national animal is the Blue Hare, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of Grathorn.

Tharvoss is ranked 291,985^th in the world and 152^nd in Declansburg for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -15 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.