The Empire of Mippon is a large, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 194 million Mipponianoes are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.3%.

The powerhouse Mipponian economy, worth 13.7 trillion Iemes a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 70,511 Iemes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 220,300 per year while the poor average 17,320, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.

Teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough, government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, and the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mippon's national animal is the Dragão, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mippon is ranked 103,120^th in the world and 9^th in Sentry for Rudest Citizens, with 53.52 insults per minute.