The Budding Forest of Grace Wellesley Thayer is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Welly Thayer with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.876 billion Thayerians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Thayerian economy, worth 192 trillion wellies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 102,843 wellies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 299,575 per year while the poor average 27,913, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Directors of low-budget sci-fi films are flocking to use Saint-Paul-de-Vence as a backdrop, sharing vacation pictures requires written consent from the entire beach resort, labour strikes are routinely squashed by police, and civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's. Crime is totally unknown. Grace Wellesley Thayer's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Thayerian deference.

Grace Wellesley Thayer is ranked 60,948^th in the world and 1,322^nd in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,602.72 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.