The Phantom Assassin of Mortred is a mammoth, cultured nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 9.076 billion Mortredians 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, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 37.8%.

The strong Mortredian economy, worth 562 trillion golds a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,983 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", Mortredian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, adultery has been made a capital offence, and loading sixteen tons of laundry gets you another year older and deeper in debt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mortred's national animal is the assassin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mortred is ranked 124,881^st in the world and 352^nd in Remembrance for Highest Average Incomes, with 61,983.71 Standard Monetary Units.