The Tropical Dreamland of Minata is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by NCC Johne and SCC Windsor with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate population of 9.421 billion Minatans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Athanus. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Minatan economy, worth a remarkable 1,200 trillion Mikans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 127,435 Mikans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials frown on anything more technologically advanced than an abacus, shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Minatans, and the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Minata's national animal is the Lobster, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lobsterlatry.

Minata is ranked 293,095^th in the world and 386^th in 10000 Islands for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.2 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.