The Blue Bird of Miravana is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Oat with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 5.744 billion Miravanese have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greater Lanton. The average income tax rate is 65.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Miravanan economy, worth 413 trillion Miravanan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 72,043 Miravanan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Miravana's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Miravana is ranked 278^th in the world and 1^st in The Black Hawks for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 1,907.16 Bank.