The Insular Area of Thundersnow is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, vat-grown people, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.058 billion Thundersnowians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 65.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thundersnowian economy, worth 207 trillion Imperial Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,003 Imperial Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver, sewing needles are topping lists of safe kids' toys, and black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thundersnow's national animal is the Island Doggo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thundersnow is ranked 221,713^th in the world and 8^th in Sea of Storms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.07 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.