The United Islands of Muralos is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by President Walter Lee with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.523 billion Muralosians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urbego. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Muralosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,289 trillion steloj a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 102,933 steloj, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Humble workers tempt fate for a taste of airline caviar, a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Muralos's national animal is the Muralosian Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Muralos is ranked 8,211^th in the world and 415^th in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 124 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.