The Who'da thunk of Icky Thump is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.082 billion Icky Thumpians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Icky Thumpian economy, worth 909 trillion one blank stares a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 128,482 one blank stares, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

A new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products, government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Icky Thump's national animal is the one white eye, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Icky Thump is ranked 263,805^th in the world and 447^th in Stereo Hearts for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -7.9 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.