The Universal State of The Therians is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by embedded sentient AttoParticles with a fair hand, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, free-roaming dinosaurs, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 22.828 billion Therians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thera Dyson Sphere. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Therian economy, worth an astonishing 11,061 trillion IsoUnits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 484,564 IsoUnits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The national security service are a bunch of crooks, Embedded sentient AttoParticles's perky ego is the talk of the town, jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies, and clairvoyants and soothsayers find fellowship at their local McRonalds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Therians's national animal is the Programmable Bio-Matter, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Atheistic Moral Logic Code 1-21E.

The Therians is ranked 299^th in the world and 3^rd in SICON for Most Cultured, scoring 613 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.