The Principality of Mountain Ranger is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 32.748 billion Mountain Rangerians 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 Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Mountain Rangerian economy, worth 973 trillion Horses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. Average income is 29,716 Horses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, Mountain Ranger's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, surveillance cameras are banned, and education and welfare spending are on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mountain Ranger's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mountain Ranger is ranked 89,726^th in the world and 4^th in Alberta for Largest Black Market, with 3.21 trillion Standard Monetary Units.