The Armed Republic of Mat She is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 378 million Mat Sheans 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 Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mat She City. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Mat Shean economy, worth 22.9 trillion She Mats a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 60,605 She Mats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The tax department is having withdrawal symptoms, wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, and going on a diet invalidates your passport. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mat She's national animal is the Friendly Neighborhood AC-130 Gunship, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mat She is ranked 172,623^rd in the world and 1,784^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -4.9 on the Hickory Productivity Index.