The Prosperous Abode of Mahasin is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Sultan Damara with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.3 billion Mahasinese are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alamerah. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.4%.

The all-consuming Mahasinese economy, worth 193 trillion Mahasinese dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 83,933 Mahasinese dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 247,089 per year while the poor average 22,444, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

The government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble, robosexual marriages are increasingly common, stockbrokers dream of getting rich by writing textbooks, and the musical cognoscenti insist the national anthem just isn't the same without a double contrabass flute. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Mahasin's national animal is the Malayan tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mahasin is ranked 107,628^th in the world and 1,092^nd in the Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,590.91 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.