The Republic of Moneyburg is a titanic, socially progressive nation, notable for its vat-grown people, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 12.706 billion Moneyburgians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Defense and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capitalist City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Moneyburgian economy, worth a remarkable 1,977 trillion moneybucks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 155,611 moneybucks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,415,132 per year while the poor average 1,952, a ratio of 724 to 1.

The morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses, curtailed social programs have left many citizens bereft of any safety net, Capitalist City has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, and the nation leads Lazarus in per capita stalking. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Moneyburg's national animal is the golden goose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Moneyburg is ranked 3,151^st in the world and 137^th in Lazarus for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 152,810.62 Standard Monetary Units.