The Empire of Monteclara is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its national health service, parental licensing program, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 850 million Monteclarans 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, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valemonte. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Monteclaran economy, worth 68.2 trillion Talons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 80,272 Talons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", and asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monteclara's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Monteclara is ranked 179,229^th in the world and 1,590^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 104.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.