The Constitutional Monarchy of Mandria is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by L M Bøkersby with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.848 billion Mandrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fari Swarth. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Mandrian economy, worth 754 trillion panders 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 195,930 panders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hackers post hourly updates on international summits, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance, and not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mandria's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Mandria is ranked 1,405^th in the world and 6^th in the Outback for Nicest Citizens, with 80.25 average smiles per day.