The Confederacy of Thes Pienthiastan is a tiny, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18 million Thes Pienthiastanians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Healthcare, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.8%.

The very strong Thes Pienthiastanian economy, worth 973 billion canoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 54,090 canoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 155,306 per year while the poor average 14,980, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, surveillance cameras are banned, and international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Thes Pienthiastan. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Thes Pienthiastan's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Thes Pienthiastan is ranked 232,876^th in the world and 104^th in The Eternal Order for Most Primitive, scoring -111.8 on the Scary Big Number Scale.