The Most Serene Republic of Monaldes is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 9 million Monaldesians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 33.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Monaldesian economy, worth 374 billion florins a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,594 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, and the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monaldes's national animal is the Toucan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Monaldes is ranked 111,775^th in the world and 136^th in Lonia Kreptia Llor for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,756.66 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.