The Republic of Minbalea is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 5.09 billion Minbaleans 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 Environment. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Minbalean economy, worth 502 trillion floras a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,813 floras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex education has become an intricate maze of stick figures and complex metaphors, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, and interest in globalism never flags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Minbalea's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Minbalea is ranked 174,047^th in the world and 886^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 459.56 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.