The Glorious Catholic Kingdom of Mandurium is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Italo-Romano Battaglia with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.874 billion Mandurianis are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manduria. The average income tax rate is 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Manduriumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,213 trillion Lire a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 248,985 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government statistics suggest 115% of the population love Italo-Romano Battaglia, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and politicians look weirdly alike. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mandurium's national animal is the Vulture, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Mandurium is ranked 5,809^th in the world and 1^st in Sacrum Axis Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 112.85 law-abiding acts per hour.