The Queendom of Mashabia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 890 million Mashabians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 59.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mashabian economy, worth 26.1 trillion cleonas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,332 cleonas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Woodland critters flock to the safety of unfamiliar humans wearing lab-coats, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low, and commercial jingles are the nation's greatest export. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mashabia's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mashabia is ranked 35,774^th in the world and 132^nd in Starlight for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 50.37 on the Kitten Softness Rating.