The Constitutional Monarchy of Matrizial is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Mego Mego with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 3.245 billion Matrizialianiesies are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Northern East Southern West Matriztia. The average income tax rate is 82.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Matriziali economy, worth 385 trillion Pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,583 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', finders keepers is the law of the land, prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, and picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Matrizial's national animal is the Water Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ascención Church.

Matrizial is ranked 10,458^th in the world and 266^th in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 90.49 on the Human Development Index.