The Common Republic of Maplou is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.895 billion Maploui are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bay of Maplou. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The powerhouse Maplouan economy, worth 568 trillion Leaves a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,179 Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maplouan husbands are dead good at fathering kids, airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, and religious households enthusiastically use whips in private. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maplou's national animal is the Blue Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Maplou is ranked 12,601^st in the world and 32^nd in The Western Isles for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 54.3 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.