The Republic of Melenavenia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Frank Niel with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.964 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 97.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Melenavenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,872 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 170,809 MDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead", the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. 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 246,084^th in the world and 132^nd in Refugia for Largest Black Market, with 156 billion Standard Monetary Units.