The Technate of Mikustania is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Hoshi Uemoto with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.272 billion Mikustanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuwakowo. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mikustanian economy, worth 629 trillion Kiens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 100,368 Kiens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hoshi Uemoto affectionately nicknames supporters by number, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, there is a dearth of space for new houses, and the big red machine has ground to a halt. Crime is totally unknown. Mikustania's national animal is the Whale Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Secularism.

Mikustania is ranked 9,558^th in the world and 219^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,727.74 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.