The People's Republic of Manalands is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Gilgamesh Green with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 923 million Manalandsians 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, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Freedom. The average income tax rate is 79.8%.

The sizeable but sluggish Manalandsian economy, worth 24.1 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 26,133 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Engineers are reinventing the wheel, senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, and posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Manalands's national animal is the white panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Manalands is ranked 285,274^th in the world and 116^th in Lewisham Library for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -14.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.