The Protectorate of Third Positionism is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 22.341 billion Third Positionists are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Third Positionist economy, worth 535 trillion Currencies 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 Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. 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 23,975 Currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Third Positionism's national animal is the National Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Third Positionism is ranked 103,419^th in the world and 1^st in Third Positionism for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,005.44 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.