The Goated Zone of Workuta Thob is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Colossal Craig with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.698 billion Thobians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thobopolis. The average income tax rate is 81.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Workuta Thobian economy, worth 231 trillion gollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 136,477 gollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, Workuta Thobian farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic, and civil engineers are undermining sinkholes. Crime is totally unknown. Workuta Thob's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Workuta Thob is ranked 1,109^th in the world and 5^th in Horizon for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 16,602.15 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.