The Lucky Location of ThePlace is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Brain Cell with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 13.672 billion ThePlaceans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of TheCity. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ThePlacean economy, worth a remarkable 1,733 trillion Gold Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,771 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, and airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ThePlace's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Passive Aggression.

ThePlace is ranked 280,796^th in the world and 6,800^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 0.51 flags saluted per person per day.