The Democratic People's Republic of Far Tholk is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.799 billion Far Tholkians 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 enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Far Tholk City. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Far Tholkian economy, worth a remarkable 1,685 trillion gold pieces a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 106,670 gold pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hay has been added to school cafeteria menus, the media seems excessively interested in what Leader is wearing this season, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, and court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Far Tholk's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Far Tholk is ranked 5,365^th in the world and 2^nd in The Great Experiment for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 14,689.11 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.