The Queendom of Mystique is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, fear of technology, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.603 billion Mystiqueans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 38.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mystiquean economy, worth 544 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,277 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The "swords to plowshares" policy has created a generation of farmers that can kill a yak from 200 yards away, they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, and grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mystique's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mystique is ranked 117,876^th in the world and 311^th in Remembrance for Highest Average Incomes, with 63,277.81 Standard Monetary Units.