The People's Paradise of Masque Carnivalia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by The Council of Eleven with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 4.64 billion Masque Carnivalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 63.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Masque Carnivalian economy, worth 178 trillion Hanas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 38,470 Hanas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates, people of faith are sent to twelve-step programs for 'The Cure', and firebombing politicians' offices has become a common way of expressing dissatisfaction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Masque Carnivalia's national animal is the Moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is state athiesm.

Masque Carnivalia is ranked 81,377^th in the world and 3,735^th in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.