The Kingdom of The Mode is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 56 million Modeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 28.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Modean economy, worth 2.42 trillion Modean modeas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,291 Modean modeas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend, and getting an autograph has become harder than ever. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Mode's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Mode is ranked 147,503^rd in the world and 23^rd in The Mood for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 402.74 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.