The People's Republic of Mudcott is a massive, safe nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, compulsory military service, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.267 billion Mudcottians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Mudcottian economy, worth 222 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 175,287 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,573,312 per year while the poor average 2,481, a ratio of 634 to 1.

It's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast, the government has enacted freedom of information, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, and Dogman-branded weapons are all the rage in the militaristic comic-book community. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mudcott's national animal is the 白头海雕, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mudcott is ranked 316,676^th in the world and 17^th in The federation of Washington for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -9.49 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.