The Lich Please of Necromancers of Thanateros is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Oquintia Thanateros with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.921 billion Necromancers of Thanaterosians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Floating Citadel of Oramuth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.7%.

The powerhouse Necromancers of Thanaterosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,776 trillion Szlotaks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 111,590 Szlotaks, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

A few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to Oquintia Thanateros, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, the government spends billions to protect Necromancers of Thanateros from a disaster that is one in a million, and government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Necromancers of Thanateros's national animal is the Undead Gryphon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Worship of Queen of Ramazakal.

Necromancers of Thanateros is ranked 243,195^th in the world and 7^th in The Skeleton Army for Most Primitive, scoring -132.55 on the Scary Big Number Scale.