The Grand Duchy of Mon Sold is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Grand Duke Coenraad Botello-Gagliardi with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, devout population of 8.939 billion Mon Soldians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arberghast. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mon Soldian economy, worth 854 trillion jolsts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,594 jolsts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The constant playing of Merry Birthday on Mon Soldian radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity, owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning, many in Mon Sold are born in the purple, and the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mon Sold's national animal is the bowhead whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Catholicos Nesterianism.

Mon Sold is ranked 70,760^th in the world and 10^th in Esvanovia for Highest Average Incomes, with 95,594.47 Standard Monetary Units.