The Republic of A mysterious box is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 258 million mysterious boxians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government prioritizes Spirituality, although Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while International Aid and Environment are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The very strong mysterious boxian economy, worth 14.5 trillion rubledollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 56,068 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 219,354 per year while the poor average 9,763, a ratio of 22.5 to 1.

Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. A mysterious box's national animal is the hawk, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

A mysterious box is ranked 216,153^rd in the world and 6,510^th in Suspicious for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.