The Queendom of Mashabia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 764 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 Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 63.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mashabian economy, worth 20.9 trillion cleonas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 27,336 cleonas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public, gay men commonly complain about their time of the month, and the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 91,814^th in the world and 288^th in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.