The Oasis of Moonlight Shadow is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its teetotalling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 49.934 billion lunatics hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Education, with Environment also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ghettosburg. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient lunatic economy, worth an astonishing 11,288 trillion leaves a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 226,062 leaves, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 729,434 per year while the poor average 52,985, a ratio of 13.8 to 1.

The running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless, prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, music award shows include surprise polygraph segments, and Leader panders to nontraditional families. Crime is totally unknown. Moonlight Shadow's national animal is the armed bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Moonlight Shadow is ranked 297,806^th in the world and 36^th in The Moon for Nicest Citizens, with 0.35 average smiles per day.