The District of Mfumu is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Liard with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 22.56 billion Mfumuans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Mfumuan economy, worth 90.3 trillion aurums 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 Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. 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 4,004 aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Liard has just been declared ruler of Mfumu in an international press conference, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, art criticism in Mfumu is scathingly destructive, and the judicial branch is strongly influenced by the Communist Party. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mfumu's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mfumu is ranked 136,631^st in the world and 1^st in Republic of Congo for Nicest Citizens, with 12 average smiles per day.