The Democratic Republic of Mandenosia is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 163 million Mandenosians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Mandenosian economy, worth 16.4 trillion Drachmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 100,480 Drachmas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 471,176 per year while the poor average 12,775, a ratio of 36.9 to 1.

Production of license plates has dropped as prisoners' hands are far too greasy to operate machinery, frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback, a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, and the revelation that people were sexist in the past is apparently front page news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Mandenosia's national animal is the Brain Cell, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Mandenosia is ranked 198,439^th in the world and 4,704^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 111.83 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.