The Wastelands of Nothreen is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Godfather with a fair hand, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, rampant corporate plagiarism, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 19.685 billion Nothreenians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, although Industry is also considered important, while Law & Order and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Efyuberg. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Nothreeny economy, worth an astonishing 11,968 trillion goldeens a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 608,006 goldeens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,670,955 per year while the poor average 5,773, a ratio of 982 to 1.

Nothreen has become a gigantic dustbowl filled with tourists and mean desperados, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones, and the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Nothreen's national animal is the Cockroach, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Knockism.

Nothreen is ranked 316,682^nd in the world and 4,186^th in the South Pacific for Longest Average Lifespans, with 14 years.