The Republic of Thumpy is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, avant-garde cinema, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-working population of 475 million Thumpyians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Thumpyian economy, worth 22.6 trillion doubloons a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,539 doubloons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", enemy governments seem especially interested in Thumpy's election cycle, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thumpy's national animal is the mantis shrimp.

Thumpy is ranked 120,984^th in the world and 1,898^th in Herta Space Station for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,741.35 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.