The Eternal Decadence of Montrandec is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 11.198 billion Lucky Locals are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Law & Order and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hampford. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Lucky economy, worth a remarkable 2,124 trillion Gold Brains a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 189,729 Gold Brains, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,723,284 per year while the poor average 2,408, a ratio of 715 to 1.

Lucky farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic, Lucky military drills look more like joint-the West Pacific exercises than anything else, tourists soak their luggage in boiling water before unpacking, and college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Montrandec's national animal is the Rudolph Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Athyism.

Montrandec is ranked 2,245^th in the world and 30^th in the West Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 177,207.16 Standard Monetary Units.