The Lost Island of Thakia is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, devout population of 5.557 billion Oai have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great City. The average income tax rate is 86.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Oai economy, worth 734 trillion Graios a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 132,198 Graios, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The Oai Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, and strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thakia's national animal is the Ankhazios, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thakia is ranked 69,974^th in the world and 18^th in The United Islands of the Atlantic for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 194,661 Standard Monetary Units.