The Republic of Maytree 25 is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 290 million Maytree 25ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 34.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Maytree 25ian economy, worth 2.39 trillion stences 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Tourism, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 8,231 stences, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, organ donation is compulsory, and raccoons are plump and satiated. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maytree 25's national animal is the lion.

Maytree 25 is ranked 227,171^st in the world and 122^nd in House Boucher for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.