The Heart is Cold of Neutral Federation of the Mountains is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Henri Ermanno with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.639 billion Mountaineers 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 medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mozzarella City. The average income tax rate is 60.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Mountaineer economy, worth 482 trillion Rockmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 182,741 Rockmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government response to disaster victims starving for bread is "let them eat stale cake", teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and consuming ecstasy is a common rite of passage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Neutral Federation of the Mountains's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Kitkatism.

Neutral Federation of the Mountains is ranked 41,437^th in the world and 827^th in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 4,960.84 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.