The Confederate Union of Minho is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by João carvalhas with an even hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 11.799 billion Minhotos are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Braga. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 88.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Minhoto economy, worth a remarkable 1,604 trillion euro minhotoes a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,945 euro minhotoes, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

In-cite-ment never happens at tea parties, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, military barracks resemble five-star hotels, and nobody draws smiley faces on receipts anymore. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Minho's national animal is the lobo iberico, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is atheism.

Minho is ranked 33,392^nd in the world and 4^th in Minho for Highest Average Incomes, with 135,945.92 Standard Monetary Units.