The Scandinavian-Style Republic of The Mikalan Empire is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.846 billion Mikalans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Parlavak. The average income tax rate is 52.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Mikalan Empirean economy, worth 155 trillion Teuvlas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,523 Teuvlas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, homophobia is off the menu, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Mikalan Empire's national animal is the Axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Mikalan Empire is ranked 32,642^nd in the world and 118^th in The Free Nations Region for Healthiest Citizens, with 7.73 bananas ingested per day.