The Sultanate of Muqaddar is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Barak ibn Malik al-Muqadd with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.819 billion Muqaddaris 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 relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amirabad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Muqaddarian economy, worth 615 trillion Dinars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 161,053 Dinars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 835,232 per year while the poor average 16,826, a ratio of 49.6 to 1.

Computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, nose plugs are the latest Muqaddarian fashion accessory, and parents are shocked to find out that having kids costs money. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Muqaddar's national animal is the Horseshoe Crab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Tawfiqiyya.

Muqaddar is ranked 318,223^rd in the world and 14,506^th in Osiris for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -14.49 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.