The Empire of Monteclara is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 845 million Monteclarans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valemonte. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Monteclaran economy, worth 67.3 trillion Talons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 79,703 Talons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vaccinations are mandatory, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, school uniforms are compulsory, and devotion to God is only skin-deep. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monteclara's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Monteclara is ranked 298,970^th in the world and 2,598^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.08 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.