The Holy Insectoid Empire of MBok is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The second daughter -and- Pou 'ait' with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.559 billion Insectoids 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of HyeFa capital. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Insectoid economy, worth 96.2 trillion 𝖘 - Silkstrings a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 61,697 𝖘 - Silkstrings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, and it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MBok's national animal is the Scarab, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Faith of the Heavenly Gifts.

MBok is ranked 223,848^th in the world and 436^th in Horizon for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,904.69 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.