The Community of Munchkin Country is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, cynical population of 380 million Munchkin Countryians 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, well-organized government prioritizes Welfare, with Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education also on the agenda, while Industry receives no funds. The average income tax rate is 34.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Munchkin Countryian economy, worth 15.7 trillion Emerald Green Pennies a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,236 Emerald Green Pennies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

It takes a village to catch a criminal, helicopter parenting is on the rise, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home, and Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Munchkin Country's national animal is the Cowardly Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Munchkin Country is ranked 197,937^th in the world and 58^th in Lewisham Library for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 41.95 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.