The Cheese Maker of Neutral Federation of the Mountains is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Henri Ermanno with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.464 billion Mountaineers are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mozzarella City. The average income tax rate is 71.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Mountaineer economy, worth a remarkable 1,397 trillion Rockmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 216,201 Rockmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, more and more musicians are refusing to put labels on their sound, and the government spares every expense for national defence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neutral Federation of the Mountains's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Kitkatism.

Neutral Federation of the Mountains is ranked 10,087^th in the world and 407^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 114 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.