The Nation and State of Maas is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by the Directorate with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.998 billion Maase are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, with Environment, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maasen. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Maase economy, worth a remarkable 3,995 trillion polar crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 159,816 polar crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, any machine that shows any glimmer of intelligence is scrapped for parts, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and history lessons resemble a who's-who and how's-how of crime. Crime is totally unknown. Maas's national animal is the hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is secular.

Maas is ranked 12,681^st in the world and 15^th in Arctic for Largest Populations, with 25.0 billion capita.