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“The only prescription is more cowbell!”

The Doctoral Monkey Feet of Mousebumples is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by sisters Lizzy and Sasha Hall with an even hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 14.332 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moustantinople. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, highschool principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school, and Mousebumples's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of academic achievement. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mousebumples's national animal is the long-haired treemouse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the flying monkey.

Mousebumples is ranked 19th in the region and 52,303rd in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.