The Technate of Mikustania is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Uemoto Hoshiro with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.11 billion Mikustanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuwakowo. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mikustanian economy, worth 102 trillion Kiens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 92,151 Kiens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, Mikustanian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Uemoto Hoshiro, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys. Crime is totally unknown. Mikustania's national animal is the Whale Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Secularism.

Mikustania is ranked 105,769^th in the world and 431^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Corrupt Governments, with 11.11 kickbacks per hour.