The Republic of Wildthyme on Top XXVIII is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.7 billion Wildthyme on Top XXVIIIians 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, moralistic government prioritizes Law & Order, with Education, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. The average income tax rate is 34.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Wildthyme on Top XXVIIIian economy, worth 84.0 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,439 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, the government snoops on private internet connections, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wildthyme on Top XXVIII's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Wildthyme on Top XXVIII is ranked 322,317^th in the world and 116^th in Fukuoka for Most Cultured, scoring 49 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.