The United States of Mickaslavia and Bourberry is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 7.451 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 87.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mickaslavia and Bourberryian economy, worth 582 trillion mickaslavian dollars a year, is highly 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 78,155 mickaslavian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, and the atmosphere in Mickaslavia and Bourberryian boardrooms is turning more gay. 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 48,605^th in the world and 1,530^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 151.55 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.