The Tropical Dreamland of Minata is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by NCC Johne and SCC Windsor with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 9.41 billion Minatans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Athanus. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Minatan economy, worth a remarkable 1,196 trillion Mikans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 127,189 Mikans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Increasing numbers of children in Minata have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, rocket boots and thermal detonators have become standard-issue military gear, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, and government officials frown on anything more technologically advanced than an abacus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Minata's national animal is the Lobster, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lobsterlatry.

Minata is ranked 32,933^rd in the world and 83^rd in 10000 Islands for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 7,091.5 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.