The Constitutional Monarchy of Prethorea is a large, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 111 million Prethoreans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 12.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Prethorean economy, worth 7.03 trillion Prethorean Shields a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 63,289 Prethorean Shields, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, conspiracy theorists allege Prethorea City's new subway map resembles Satanic symbols, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Prethorea's national animal is the Prethorean Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Prethorea is ranked 145,302^nd in the world and 650^th in Chicken overlords for Most Developed, scoring 55.94 on the Human Development Index.