The People's Ambient Technocracy of Mathematania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Calculo Calculi with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, unlimited-speed roads, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful population of 45.994 billion Mathematanians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mathematania City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Mathematanian economy, worth a remarkable 9,744 trillion cpus a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 211,867 cpus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Mathematania City State Museum is said to be haunted by ghastly musicians playing 'Nearer Violet to Thee', prisons in Mathematania are the summer homes of murderers, the government guarantees extra-soft tissues to fire-snorting elephants, and signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars. Crime is totally unknown. Mathematania's national animal is the rainbow horned toad, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is aspirituality.

Mathematania is ranked 918^th in the world and 22^nd in the West Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 93.36 average smiles per day.