The Holy Empire of Therax is a small, orderly nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20 million Theraxians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.3%.

The Theraxian economy, worth 1.01 trillion throne gelts a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 50,553 throne gelts, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes, Trout Farming facilities are being turned into human habitats, a law degree is required before telling people not to drink and drive, and the secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Therax's national animal is the human.

Therax is ranked 318,686^th in the world and 3,984^th in The North Pacific for Largest Populations, with 20.0 million capita.