The Free Land of Magic Mountain is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 699 million Little Story Tellers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tumbledown Town. The average income tax rate is 16.6%.

The Magic economy, worth 33.3 trillion moonbeams a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 47,617 moonbeams, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The full title of Hon Leader Vcte Mgve MF FLMMLM GCME runs to several pages, escalators are avoided at all costs, Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Magic Mountain's new capital, and parking's carefree without parking car fees. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Magic Mountain's national animal is the magic hamster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Magic Mountain is ranked 247,313^th in the world and 33^rd in Lewisham Library for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 28.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.