The State of Mounted Mechanized is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 33.907 billion Mounted Mechanizedians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 37.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mounted Mechanizedian economy, worth a remarkable 1,031 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 30,415 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mounted Mechanized's national animal is the deer.

Mounted Mechanized is ranked 72,847^th in the world and 203^rd in State for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 3,314.25 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.