The Goated Zone of Workuta Thob is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Colossal Craig with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.693 billion Thobians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thobopolis. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Workuta Thobian economy, worth 229 trillion gollars 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 135,729 gollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Workuta Thob's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, and government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries. Crime is totally unknown. Workuta Thob's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Workuta Thob is ranked 108,566^th in the world and 168^th in Horizon for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 10,886.52 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.