The Pool Noodle Manufacturer of Minskiev is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 612 million Minskievians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kyiv. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Minskievian economy, worth 71.4 trillion Minskievian Rubles a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 116,700 Minskievian Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for Buffalo sacrifices, and giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls. Crime is totally unknown. Minskiev's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Minskiev is ranked 76,993^rd in the world and 1,460^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.