The United People of Western Thottera is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vermin Supreme with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.359 billion Western Thotterans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Doug Dimmadome. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Western Thotteran economy, worth a remarkable 1,025 trillion Big Greens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,556 Big Greens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and the rich and poor vomit into separate bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Western Thottera's national animal is the Wooper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nothing.

Western Thottera is ranked 23,660^th in the world and 592^nd in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.9 law-abiding acts per hour.