The Kingdom of Mabanmanga is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sabelo Ntlokwana with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, rampant corporate plagiarism, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.848 billion Mabanmangans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mbesumbwe. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mabanmangan economy, worth a remarkable 1,287 trillion Lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 100,233 Lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested, elected officials often serve for decades in a single term, and citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Mabanmanga's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Animism.

Mabanmanga is ranked 22,554^th in the world and 14^th in Africa for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,694.92 on the Gilded Widget Scale.