The Kingdom of Menderai is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Accipiter with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 30.613 billion Menderians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Suevia. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Menderaian economy, worth a remarkable 4,430 trillion nummulars 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 144,721 nummulars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, and foreigners must sell an arm and a leg to afford surgery in Menderai. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Menderai's national animal is the hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Menderian.

Menderai is ranked 4,010^th in the world and 194^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 122.08 law-abiding acts per hour.