The United Republican Federation of Mortionia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Gustavo Rasdrani with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.088 billion Mortionians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Morbinville. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mortionian economy, worth 635 trillion Mortionian lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,398 Mortionian lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prison visits increase substantially during election years, employers are keenest on employees who lack family values, the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation, and running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mortionia's national animal is the Morbius, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mortionia is ranked 5,415^th in the world and 256^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 59.47 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.