The Empire of Moonlara is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 960 million Moonlarans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Moonlaran economy, worth 40.5 trillion Scaleses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 42,225 Scaleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, and every week is blindness awareness week. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moonlara's national animal is the Starweaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Moonlara is ranked 147,490^th in the world and 3^rd in Swirling Fires for Most Developed, scoring 55.78 on the Human Development Index.