The Lucky Blue Dance Festivals of Happy Thoughts is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Faithguide Wendy Regina the Lovely with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, lack of airports, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.77 billion Happy Thinkers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while International Aid and Public Transport aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Celebrations. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Happy economy, worth a remarkable 2,648 trillion gold Kindnesses a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,065 gold Kindnesses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, museums offer moralization or your money back, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, and spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Happy Thoughts's national animal is the Happy Ghost Kitty, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Regions Featured.

Happy Thoughts is ranked 238,980^th in the world and 7^th in The Featured Region Followers for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 29,514.95 Standard Monetary Units.