The Commonwealth Nation of Menydh is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Council Chairman John Southman with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.92 billion furries are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Penmarth. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient furry economy, worth 515 trillion Pound Sterlings a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,489 Pound Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, and on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Menydh's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State of Secularism.

Menydh is ranked 1,556^th in the world and 1^st in New United Kingdom of Albion for Least Corrupt Governments, with 96.81 percentage of bribes refused.