The Community of Manatee is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 3.573 billion Manateeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 16.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Manateean economy, worth 260 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,952 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies, and urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Manatee's national animal is the Manatee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Manatee is ranked 92,021^st in the world and 10^th in Safari for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.9 law-abiding acts per hour.