The United Mangrove Archipelago of Ransium is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Scipio with an even hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and complete lack of public education. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 43.166 billion Ransites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Environment, with Healthcare, Social Policy, and Industry also on the agenda, while Education and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mangrove City. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ransiumian economy, worth a remarkable 8,977 trillion Cloyns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 207,985 Cloyns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, civil servants refuse to enforce government regulations for fear of wider economic impact, and factories churn out smog to make statues commemorating environmentalism. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ransium's national animal is the Tiger Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Mangrovism.

Ransium is ranked 308,234^th in the world and 284^th in Forest for Most Cultured, scoring -476 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.