The Republic of Melenavenia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Lola Kulai with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.74 billion Melenavenians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District of Patricia. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Melenavenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,814 trillion MDS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 168,982 MDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in District of Patricia for fear of causing a fuss, defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were, and the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Melenavenia's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Melenavenia is ranked 241,070^th in the world and 353^rd in Refugia for Most Authoritarian, with 410.96 milliStalins.