The State of Thomas Ellis is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, complete lack of public education, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 26.113 billion Thomas Ellisians 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 tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thomas Ellis City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.2%.

The powerhouse Thomas Ellisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,105 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 42,348 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 143,814 per year while the poor average 9,200, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Hell is not always other people, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, ad hoc militias patrol the streets in an effort to control rampant crime, and the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists. Crime is a problem. Thomas Ellis's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thomas Ellis is ranked 215,712^th in the world and 5^th in Tennessee for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring zero on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.