The Matriarchy of Vindicating Wildthyme is a massive, pleasant nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of public education, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.377 billion Vindicating Wildthymeans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.6%.

The strong Vindicating Wildthymean economy, worth 163 trillion tokens a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 68,804 tokens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 442,596 per year while the poor average 4,335, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work, protests are prohibited from blocking traffic, and companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water. Crime is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Vindicating Wildthyme's national animal is the femme fatale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vindicating Wildthyme is ranked 27,944^th in the world and 27^th in Viridian Sound for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 6,343.95 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.