The Republic of Mincestia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 476 million Mincestians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Mincestian economy, worth 29.4 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,707 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Mincestia Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, and all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mincestia's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Mincestia is ranked 170,531^st in the world and 6,492^nd in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -132.38 on the Scary Big Number Scale.