The Republic of Maytree 25 is a small, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 29 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, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 33.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Maytree 25ian economy, worth 289 billion 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, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 9,985 stences, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

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 171,411^th in the world and 188^th in House Boucher for Largest Governments, scoring 10.82 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.