The Commonwealth of Mainze is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noble Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 5.517 billion Mainzeans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mainze City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Mainzean economy, worth a remarkable 1,739 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 315,385 Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,929,814 per year while the poor average 22,664, a ratio of 85.1 to 1.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Mainzean language, the recently liberated free press cautiously uses compliment sandwiches to cushion its criticisms of Noble Leader, and you can call your arthritic immigrant neighbour for all your roof-tiling and guttering needs. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Mainze's national animal is the Aardvark, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is an obscure religion that has no name.

Mainze is ranked 2,592^nd in the world and 64^th in Lazarus for Most World Assembly Endorsements, with 57 Valid Endorsements.