The State of Moth Eaters is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 31.569 billion Moth Eatersians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Moth Eatersian economy, worth 449 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 14,237 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and Moth Eaters has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moth Eaters's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Moth Eaters is ranked 191,019^th in the world and 1^st in The Republic of Azerbaijan for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring zero on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.