The Commonwealth of Thessat is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The quiet, industrious population of 284 million Thessatians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xavier. The average income tax rate is 46.4%.

The thriving Thessatian economy, worth 20.2 trillion skatts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 71,043 skatts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

A government program is underway to revitalize Thessat's beaches, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, and citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thessat's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thessat is ranked 54,164^th in the world and 159^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,658.26 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.