The Republic of Mountain Island is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads, compulsory military service, and fear of technology. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 142 million Mountain Islandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mountain Islandian economy, worth 5.01 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,295 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The education system has gotten a recent boost in spending, back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation, sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mountain Island's national animal is the merlion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mountain Island is ranked 43,968^th in the world and 1,504^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 51.96 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.