The Democratic Republic of Mauton is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.266 billion Mautonians 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 Administration. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mautonian economy, worth 318 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 140,657 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a bright dawn ahead for Mauton, military spending recently hit a new high, female ship captains never volunteer for polar routes, and nothing gets the party jumping like Leader specifying how high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mauton's national animal is the gecko, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Mauton is ranked 330,128^th in the world and 1,217^th in Concord for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -14.83 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.