The United Socialist States of Manduulin is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 291 million Manduulinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Manduulinian economy, worth 16.8 trillion Mandus a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 57,685 Mandus, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cops in Manduulin City spend much of their time napping on a park bench next to Embassy Row, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, and park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Manduulin's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Manduulin is ranked 240,098^th in the world and 54^th in Palatine for Largest Populations, with 291 million capita.