The Community of The Communist State of Mal is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 184 million Malites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Malite economy, worth 9.70 trillion Geld Diems a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,714 Geld Diems, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Euthanasia is legal, the Malite Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, and teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Communist State of Mal's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Communist State of Mal is ranked 86,512^th in the world and 31^st in Blue Ridge for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,917.57 on the Gilded Widget Scale.