The Horrific Theories of Thought Obliteration is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Program Engineers with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.529 billion bodies are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kore 13. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient death driven economy, worth 411 trillion Nutritional Ration Prescriptions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 269,132 Nutritional Ration Prescriptions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Electricity company executives pray nightly to Zeus and Thor, heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, and students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thought Obliteration's national animal is the Astrotemporal Microbial Aggregate, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Menticide.

Thought Obliteration is ranked 7,897^th in the world and 382^nd in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,140.43 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.