The Federation of Maneterra is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 659 million Maneterrans 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blizzard City. The average income tax rate is 53.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Maneterran economy, worth 53.4 trillion lilies a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is 81,013 lilies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, Leader's used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition, and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maneterra's national animal is the chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maneterra is ranked 83,729^th in the world and 2^nd in Pax Imperialis for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 114.54 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.