The Budding Forest of Grace Wellesley Thayer is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Welly Thayer with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.809 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, pro-business, 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 13.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Thayerian economy, worth 181 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 100,595 wellies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 301,786 per year while the poor average 26,191, a ratio of 11.5 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, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grace Wellesley Thayer's national animal is the elk, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Thayerian deference.

Grace Wellesley Thayer is ranked 143,648^th in the world and 3,118^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.55 law-abiding acts per hour.