The Department of Manche is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Jacques Witkowski with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 24.763 billion Manchois 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint-Lô. The average income tax rate is 33.9%.

The thriving Manchois economy, worth a remarkable 1,680 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,876 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, even snitches get stitches, and the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Manche's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Manche is ranked 14,304^th in the world and 3^rd in Department Store for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,639.21 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.