The Federal Republic of Michelland is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chief of the FCM with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.969 billion Michellandians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port-Hypnon. The average income tax rate is 93.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Michellandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,220 trillion PQS 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 175,203 PQS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Claims of miracles are met with calls to eradicate religion as superstitious nonsense, space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across Michelland, disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime is totally unknown. Michelland's national animal is the Castor roux, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Michelland is ranked 329,141^st in the world and 17,665^th in Lazarus for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 17.96 on the Bus Surprisal Index.