The Imperial State of Thneedtown is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Ebeziah Muji with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 24.882 billion Thneedans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coleridge. The average income tax rate is 89.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Thneed economy, worth a remarkable 2,961 trillion Vasel Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,030 Vasel Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

One year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for Ebeziah Muji's office, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide, and they say that Thneedans made a dessert and called it peace. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thneedtown's national animal is the Totar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nine Divines.

Thneedtown is ranked 33,815^th in the world and 1,496^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 234.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.