The Wastelands of Nothreen is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Godfather with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, ubiquitous missile silos, and astonishingly minimal parenting. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 19.393 billion Nothreenians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Efyuberg. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Nothreeny economy, worth an astonishing 11,660 trillion goldeens a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 601,281 goldeens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,608,212 per year while the poor average 5,710, a ratio of 982 to 1.

Commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort, and only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nothreen's national animal is the Cockroach, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Knockism.

Nothreen is ranked 309,810^th in the world and 4,172^nd in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring -167 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.