The Constitutional Monarchy of Maladantium is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Queen Seramina of House Asteria with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.43 billion Maladantians 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 enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vesperosa. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Maladantian economy, worth a remarkable 1,757 trillion dants a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 113,874 dants, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are sent to either religious or secular schools, becoming a missionary is a sure-fire route to martyrdom, arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, and going on a diet invalidates your passport. Crime is totally unknown. Maladantium's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Goddess of the Phoenix Pele.

Maladantium is ranked 286,897^th in the world and 4,004^th in the Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.49 kickbacks per hour.