The Republic of Mon Island is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 501 million Monians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Miana. The average income tax rate is 23.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Monian economy, worth 46.6 trillion Veliars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,964 Veliars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, gun ownership is compulsory, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mon Island's national animal is the mon eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Mon Island is ranked 203,587^th in the world and 9,148^th in The North Pacific for Nudest, with 27.5 Cheeks Per Square Mile.