The Free Land of Agrathap is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.251 billion Agrathapians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Agra. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Agrathapian economy, worth 567 trillion Blizonies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 108,054 Blizonies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, and kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Agrathap's national animal is the Rincewind, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Agrathap is ranked 11,994^th in the world and 1^st in Discordant Region of Rugby for Smartest Citizens, with 84.28 quips per hour.