The United States of Mickaslavia and Bourberry is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 7.299 billion mickaslavians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New London. The average income tax rate is 85.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mickaslavia and Bourberryian economy, worth 581 trillion mickaslavian dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 79,647 mickaslavian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All recreational drugs are legal, school uniforms are compulsory, moonshine has made a resurgence, and cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mickaslavia and Bourberry's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mickaslavia and Bourberry is ranked 24,586^th in the world and 880^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.25 law-abiding acts per hour.