The Human Coop of Monkely is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by people with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.182 billion Monkelyians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of everywhere. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Monkelyian economy, worth 316 trillion bananas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 145,212 bananas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's foreign policy statements are less threatening than a World Assembly cease-and-desist letter, the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, and People is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime is totally unknown. Monkely's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Monkely is ranked 7,643^rd in the world and 58^th in Refugia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 56.96 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.