The Federation of Miscellanea is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 271 million miscellaneans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The miscellanese economy, worth 13.5 trillion misels a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,847 misels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff, belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace', flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, and third world countries are rich in "I Love Miscellanea City" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Miscellanea's national animal is the lyrebird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Miscellanea is ranked 242,036^th in the world and 174^th in Karma for Largest Populations, with 271 million capita.