The Commonwealth of Thraece is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 225 million Thraeceans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Thraecean economy, worth 22.5 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Book Publishing. Average income is 99,857 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 477,177 per year while the poor average 12,254, a ratio of 38.9 to 1.

Citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, proprietary charger leads are now a pain for electric cars as well as cellphones, many aides in Leader's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, and school lockers are filled with fancy underwear. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Thraece's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thraece is ranked 17,984^th in the world and 559^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 7,717.94 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.