The United States of Mickaslavia and Bourberry is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, otherworldly petting zoo, and frequent executions. The compassionate population of 7.352 billion mickaslavians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New London. The average income tax rate is 86.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mickaslavia and Bourberryian economy, worth 585 trillion mickaslavian dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 79,618 mickaslavian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'Totally Not Partisan News' is a line item on the government budget, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, and coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mickaslavia and Bourberry's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mickaslavia and Bourberry is ranked 247,604^th in the world and 4,999^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -144.48 on the Scary Big Number Scale.