The Queen's State of Mal Content is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 36.599 billion Mal Contentians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Mal Contentian economy, worth 681 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 18,611 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, and the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal then most battlefields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mal Content's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mal Content is ranked 123,644^th in the world and 454^th in State for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.