The Kazamanic Puppet of Manderville Parks is a massive, safe nation, notable for its burgeoning Ground squirrel population. The democratic population of 1.121 billion Mandervillians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manderville. The average income tax rate is 44.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Manderville Parksian economy, worth 32.1 trillion Roasted acorns a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,610 Roasted acorns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter', and the once prosperous capital is in utter decline. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Manderville Parks's national animal is the Ground squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Manderville Parks is ranked 203,265^th in the world and 307^th in Crystal Falls for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -5.67 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.