The Dirt of Mud n Rocks is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 35.528 billion Mud n Rocksians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.9%.

The all-consuming Mud n Rocksian economy, worth a remarkable 2,816 trillion waters 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Information Technology. 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 79,269 waters, with the richest citizens earning 7.8 times as much as the poorest.

Exiles see that the line where the sky meets the sea is just clouds and rain, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, blue bloods are welcome in Mud n Rocks, and riot police are stationed around paintings of violent protestors. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Mud n Rocks's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is DownToEarthism.

Mud n Rocks is ranked 286,218^th in the world and 5^th in Earth for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.51 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.