The Democratic Republic of Mord is a small, socially progressive nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 45 million Mordians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Mordian economy, worth 491 billion mord dollars 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 Trout Farming, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 10,902 mord dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, surveillance cameras are banned, euthanasia is legal, and voting is voluntary. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mord's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mord is ranked 154,572^nd in the world and 17^th in Gensokyo for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.