The Loving Couple of ThanksToThem- is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Luz with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, vat-grown people, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.484 billion ThanksToThem-ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hexside. The average income tax rate is 68.8%.

The all-consuming ThanksToThem-ian economy, worth 325 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 93,378 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

City mayors have to get permission from parliament to take a vacation day, former arms manufacturing CEOs are now delivering food for minimum wage, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, and preschoolers practice disarming active shooters before naptime. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ThanksToThem-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

ThanksToThem- is ranked 265,023^rd in the world and 54^th in Novo Brasil for Most Beautiful Environments, with 120.53 pounds of wildlife per square mile.