The State of Minitaka is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of public education, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.807 billion Minitakans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The powerhouse Minitakan economy, worth 764 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 38,590 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 136,596 per year while the poor average 7,871, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Minitaka's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Minitaka is ranked 75,940^th in the world and 1^st in Maya for Most Corrupt Governments, with 22.41 kickbacks per hour.