The Principality of Mountain ASSR is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its public floggings. The hard-working population of 4.874 billion Mountain ASSRians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 29.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mountain ASSRian economy, worth 188 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Retail, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 38,687 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Getting an autograph has become harder than ever, dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books, large sections of Mountain ASSR have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mountain ASSR's national animal is the Kitsune, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mountain ASSR is ranked 155,923^rd in the world and 2^nd in yasuj for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 29.63 Effective Tax Rate.