The United Socialist States of Malavasis is a large, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working population of 170 million Malavasisians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.1%.

The very strong Malavasisian economy, worth 10.1 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 59,138 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 169,620 per year while the poor average 16,402, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and the government is attempting to impose a new national language on the public. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Malavasis's national animal is the fox, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Malavasis is ranked 132,193^rd in the world and 257^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 57.25 on the Human Development Index.