The Arling of Mantarys is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Arl Balleo vos Ennyrion with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.605 billion Mantarysians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ryso. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.3%.

The very strong Mantarysian economy, worth 440 trillion kamas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. Average income is 66,764 kamas, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones, the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days, M-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, and group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mantarys's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Maumiqism.

Mantarys is ranked 105,265^th in the world and 1^st in The International Bar for Most Developed, scoring 60.28 on the Human Development Index.