The Community of Manatee is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 8.921 billion Manateeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 16.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Manateean economy, worth 676 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,883 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of Manatee, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, a nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero, and Leader's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Manatee's national animal is the Manatee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Manatee is ranked 245,059^th in the world and 114^th in Safari for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 40.78 on the Kitten Softness Rating.