The Free Land of Mint Chip 5 is a huge, pleasant nation, renowned for its frequent executions, digital currency, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 769 million Mint Chip 5ians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Administration, although Defense, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.4%.

The strong Mint Chip 5ian economy, worth 31.9 trillion baht a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 41,460 baht, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 129,010 per year while the poor average 10,244, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, Mint Chip 5ian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, and nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Mint Chip 5's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mint Chip 5 is ranked 232,994^th in the world and 4,181^st in Artificial Solar System for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.