The Fiefdom of Musselia is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 217 million Musselians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 44.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Musselian economy, worth 6.67 trillion puny cockles 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 Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. 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 30,751 puny cockles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, and nine-year-olds are discovering that they can grow gardens in real life too. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Musselia's national animal is the mighty mussel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Musselia is ranked 68,229^th in the world and 1^st in Left Communism for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.