The Dictatorship of Cus Manda is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.185 billion Cus Mandans 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 relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Cus Mandan economy, worth 359 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 164,604 rubles, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,393,926 per year while the poor average 3,548, a ratio of 392 to 1.

Couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material', small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists, children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer, and the study of quantum physics has been outlawed for fear of accidentally causing the end of the world. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Cus Manda's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cus Manda is ranked 38,788^th in the world and 44^th in Concord for Largest Black Market, with 32.5 trillion Standard Monetary Units.