The Oppressed Peoples of Thunkovia is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by John Thunker with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.19 billion Thunkovians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tristitia. The average income tax rate is 4.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Thunkovian economy, worth a remarkable 1,085 trillion smackaroons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 175,432 smackaroons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

A firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations, much of Thunkovia's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, and travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Thunkovia flights to avoid the pay lavatories. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Thunkovia's national animal is the Depressed Echidna, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Thunkism.

Thunkovia is ranked 51,729^th in the world and 2,538^th in Lazarus for Largest Black Market, with 14.8 trillion Standard Monetary Units.