The Federation of Mentesa is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Prime Minister Santiago Abascal with an iron fist, and notable for its fear of technology, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-working, cynical population of 1.833 billion Mentesans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garriga. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.8%.

The thriving Mentesan economy, worth 135 trillion florins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 73,772 florins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 229,551 per year while the poor average 18,228, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

Children are expected to carve their own toys, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements, and weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mentesa's national animal is the tiger, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is National conservatism.

Mentesa is ranked 220,866^th in the world and 2^nd in The Republican Governance Union for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 123.01 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.