The Matriarchy of Mortifique is a large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 127 million Mortifiqueans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The thriving Mortifiquean economy, worth 9.14 trillion Black Opals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 71,933 Black Opals, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 244,902 per year while the poor average 15,567, a ratio of 15.7 to 1.

Wait staff claim to like it when odorous customers flirt with them, street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by, Mortifique City's iconic yellow taxis are nowhere to be seen, and chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mortifique's national animal is the Void Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Mortifique is ranked 248,351^st in the world and 3,538^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 15,567.66 Standard Monetary Units.