The Principality of Mint Chip 73 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 3.101 billion Mint Chip 73ians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The very strong Mint Chip 73ian economy, worth 145 trillion kronor a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 46,888 kronor, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 249,125 per year while the poor average 4,658, a ratio of 53.5 to 1.

Mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names, and citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mint Chip 73's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Mint Chip 73 is ranked 319,482^nd in the world and 17,226^th in Lazarus for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -6.32 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.