The Consolidated Technocracy of Matonis is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by First Administrator with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.983 billion Matonisans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Insight Academy. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Matonisan economy, worth a remarkable 6,301 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 371,026 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans, anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead, parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset, and a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Matonis's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Matonis is ranked 323^rd in the world and 10^th in Balder for Largest Governments, scoring 84.7 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.