The Colony of Modon is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its vat-grown people, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.753 billion Modonians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Modon city. The average income tax rate is 33.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Modonian economy, worth 80.0 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,608 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

A National Academy regulates grammar and usage, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, soldiers are equipped with multi-million dollar battlesuits, and solar death ray construction will commence as soon as it rains dollars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Modon's national animal is the elephant, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Modon is ranked 66,340^th in the world and 4^th in Project for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.