The State of Maddin is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 23.978 billion Maddinians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Maddinian economy, worth 381 trillion betales 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 led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 15,906 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, all new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers, invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, and popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maddin's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maddin is ranked 72,256^th in the world and 2^nd in Guinea Bissau for Most Beautiful Environments, with 609.21 pounds of wildlife per square mile.