The Mystery of Mountain Mystics is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 19.5 billion Mystics are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Welfare, with Education, Healthcare, and International Aid also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 61.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Mystic economy, worth 320 trillion Poems a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 16,447 Poems, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown. Mountain Mystics's national animal is the Goat.

Mountain Mystics is ranked 20,115^th in the world and 1^st in Dagestan for Largest Populations, with 19.5 billion capita.