The Armed Dictatorship of The New Michiganian State is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by The General with an iron fist, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, digital currency, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.628 billion Regulars are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Michigania. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 86.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Regulae economy, worth a remarkable 1,980 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 351,850 Credits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,623,364 per year while the poor average 46,096, a ratio of 35.2 to 1.

The government spends billions to protect The New Michiganian State from a disaster that is one in a million, shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops -- filled with debris, hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success, and plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The New Michiganian State's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Militarism.

The New Michiganian State is ranked 7,256^th in the world and 381^st in Lazarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 6,480.43 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.