The United Socialist States of Thellogmand is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 751 million Thellogmandians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 36.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Thellogmandian economy, worth 24.6 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,785 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, umbrellas are back in fashion, and the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thellogmand's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thellogmand is ranked 250,857^th in the world and 9,136^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.