The Republic of Mangakino is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Malcom E with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, complete lack of public education, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 15.059 billion Mangakinoans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gladstone incorporated. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.7%.

The very strong Mangakinoan economy, worth 797 trillion 1257s a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Average income is 52,926 1257s, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 211,707 per year while the poor average 8,886, a ratio of 23.8 to 1.

Innocent defendants often plea guilty for fear of receiving a much harsher sentence before jury, the government is attempting to impose a new national language on the public, senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Mangakino's national animal is the Bryan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is a major religion.

Mangakino is ranked 289,215^th in the world and 5,080^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 33.66 law-abiding acts per hour.