The Republic of May 4 is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 374 million May 4ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.5%.

The sizeable but inefficient May 4ian economy, worth 15.7 trillion Cards 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 Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 41,948 Cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

Shoving people into lockers qualifies you for a ministerial position, trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same, it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into May 4, and students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. May 4's national animal is the Card, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

May 4 is ranked 141,221^st in the world and 8^th in Calendar for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.