The Republic of Mountain Island is a large, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 86 million Mountain Islandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mountain Islandian economy, worth 3.39 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,473 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, the full title of Hon Leader Vcte Mgve MF RMILM GCMIE runs to several pages, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, and tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mountain Island's national animal is the merlion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mountain Island is ranked 284,523^rd in the world and 6,068^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -13.34 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.