The Blue Bird of Miravana is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Oat with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 6.203 billion Miravanese 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 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 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Miravanan economy, worth 507 trillion Miravanan Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 81,775 Miravanan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, it's often raining men (hallelujah) in Greater Lanton, and citizens have never heard foreign radio. 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 123,787^th in the world and 215^th in The Black Hawks for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 99,288 Standard Monetary Units.