The Republic of Mint Pizza is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its vat-grown people, infamous sell-swords, and ban on automobiles. The cynical, humorless population of 2.055 billion Mint Pizzans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 51.0%.

The very strong Mint Pizzan economy, worth 120 trillion pizzas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,841 pizzas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign planes and migratory birds are shot down as spies, it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance, advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, and grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mint Pizza's national animal is the mint.

Mint Pizza is ranked 261,138^th in the world and 9,253^rd in Osiris for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 42.61 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.