The Republic of Wildthyme on Top XVII is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 1.406 billion Wildthyme on Top XVIIians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 56.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Wildthyme on Top XVIIian economy, worth 38.4 trillion rupees 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 27,318 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All industry is owned and run by the government, minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, and wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wildthyme on Top XVII's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wildthyme on Top XVII is ranked 292,603^rd in the world and 95^th in Fukuoka for Highest Average Incomes, with 27,318.77 Standard Monetary Units.