The Gold-Piercing Spear of Menasting Terra is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its prohibition of alcohol, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 4.331 billion Menasting Terrans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Menasting Terran economy, worth 267 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,808 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Menasting Terra City Natural History Museum, and museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Menasting Terra's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Menasting Terra is ranked 252,468^th in the world and 5^th in Alvarez for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.16 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.