The Democratic Republic of Montaverda is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Bernard Greene with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.121 billion Montaverdans 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 Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gasconia. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Montaverdan economy, worth 229 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,417 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university, school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them, the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands, and windows in Gasconia don't have much of a view. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Montaverda's national animal is the Moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular Society.

Montaverda is ranked 9,293^rd in the world and 2^nd in Fossare for Nicest Citizens, with 32.92 average smiles per day.