The Queendom of Thorvel is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Marie III with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 26.947 billion Thorvelers are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Administration, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Welfare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Healthcare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hàrland. The average income tax rate is 1.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorveler economy, worth a remarkable 6,708 trillion Golden crowns 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 248,960 Golden crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned bearball fields, nuclear physics is the most popular course at university, and the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorvel's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Medieval roman catholicism.

Thorvel is ranked 10,915^th in the world and 18^th in Forest for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 40,620.5 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.