The State of Mudlok is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 35.58 billion Mudlokians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.2%.

The Mudlokian economy, worth a remarkable 1,432 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 40,270 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, the government has legalised small-scale capitalism, and Mudlok has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mudlok's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mudlok is ranked 205,368^th in the world and 1^st in Mudlok for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 52.44 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.