The Democratic States of MenKangola is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 212 million MenKangolans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped MenKangolan economy, worth 6.46 trillion gold coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,481 gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bris parties are all the rage, a bureaucratic fight over MIA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations, sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, and most barbers are also surgeons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MenKangola's national animal is the capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

MenKangola is ranked 167,313^th in the world and 372^nd in Talonia for Most Patriotic, with 7.46 flags saluted per person per day.