The Commonwealth of Model 97 is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic population of 801 million Modelians 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 medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Trenchia. The average income tax rate is 37.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Model 97ian economy, worth 52.3 trillion shells a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,320 shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, a five-year-old and a convicted terrorist can sit alongside one another in jury service, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the New Trenchia Natural History Museum, and the government is on the side of working people (like CEOs, bankers and billionaires). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Model 97's national animal is the pheasant, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Model 97 is ranked 67,515^th in the world and 534^th in the West Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,534.86 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.