The Republic of Thessie is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 14.35 billion Thessieans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 46.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Thessiean economy, worth 100 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 7,023 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory, historical fiction has been banned, the death penalty has been reintroduced, and the government is reining in public spending. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Thessie's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thessie is ranked 127,907^th in the world and 3,259^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.93 law-abiding acts per hour.