The Grand Duchy of Mirage Islands is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 460 million Millwellbee Tradies are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Mirage Island economy, worth 66.9 trillion Master cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 145,435 Master cards, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,309,610 per year while the poor average 2,000, a ratio of 654 to 1.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions, slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration, and school lockers are filled with fancy underwear. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mirage Islands's national animal is the Crispiest shark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Mirage Islands is ranked 64,093^rd in the world and 8^th in Mr beasts labour town for Most Secular, with 19.35 Atheism Rate.