The Pacific Alpine Commonwealth of Mount Seymour is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Nathaniel Gardiner with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 22.743 billion Seymourians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort-Frédéric-sur-le-Montagne. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The enormous but inefficient Seymourian economy, worth a remarkable 2,125 trillion pounds a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is 93,463 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall, even secular Seymourians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!", parents dread their examinations more than their children, and Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mount Seymour's national animal is the purple-spotted newt, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Seymourian humanistic naturalism.

Mount Seymour is ranked 5,140^th in the world and 60^th in Forest for Most Cultured, scoring 156 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.