The Colony of Mobende is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 326 million Mobendeans 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Mobendean economy, worth 4.71 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is 14,446 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers must key in their passwords every time they want to reload their weapons, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, terrorist videos start by thanking their sponsors, and religious households enthusiastically use whips in private. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mobende's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mobende is ranked 160,540^th in the world and 677^th in Concord for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 978.66 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.