The Lucky Location of ThePlace is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Brain Cell with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 13.62 billion ThePlaceans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of TheCity. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ThePlacean economy, worth a remarkable 1,742 trillion Gold Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,954 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, and airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ThePlace's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Passive Aggression.

ThePlace is ranked 5,717^th in the world and 151^st in the Rejected Realms for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,186.09 pounds of wildlife per square mile.