The Empire of Thereya is a small, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its burgeoning cat population. The democratic population of 40 million Thereyans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 16.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Thereyan economy, worth 1.96 trillion valtiums a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,887 valtiums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, organ donation is compulsory, and foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Thereya will pay them to stop. Crime is almost non-existent. Thereya's national animal is the cat.

Thereya is ranked 161,257^th in the world and 174^th in The League for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 362.77 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.