The Republic of Mintsch is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 2.43 billion Mintschians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 34.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Mintschian economy, worth 61.9 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,479 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mintsch's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mintsch is ranked 247,413^th in the world and 6^th in International Socialist Assembly for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 114.12 on the Gilded Widget Scale.