The Empire of Monroe Hill is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Her Majesty Empress Eléonore with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.658 billion Monroeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brussels. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Monroean Hill economy, worth a remarkable 2,486 trillion Francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 287,239 Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The digital money revolution has cashed out, prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, Monroe Hill's citizens often wander into each other's homes, and hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monroe Hill's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Messianic.

Monroe Hill is ranked 303,091^st in the world and 42^nd in New United Kingdom of Albion for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 25.21 on the Kitten Softness Rating.