The Manifest Destiny of Plainview is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.963 billion Viewers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mika Town. The average income tax rate is 59.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Plainviewian economy, worth 613 trillion Chits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 102,828 Chits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One of the most popular models in Plainview has a scarred face and one working eye, in the mighty jungle the lion once again sleeps tonight, untold millions of Chits are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, and the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar. Crime is well under control. Plainview's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Plainview is ranked 23,471^st in the world and 1^st in Guinea Kiribati for Most Developed, scoring 85.66 on the Human Development Index.