The Free Land of Manitouwadge is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, humorless population of 9.989 billion Manitouwadgeans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Social Policy, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of White River. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Manitouwadgean economy, worth 278 trillion Icicles 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. 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 27,916 Icicles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters, and election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Manitouwadge's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Manitouwadge is ranked 108,814^th in the world and 5^th in The Nudist Dreamland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.83 law-abiding acts per hour.