The Somewhere of Mystic Skies is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.787 billion Mystic Skiesians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Mystic Skiesian economy, worth 104 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 37,626 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, crop circles are intently studied by investigators with questionable merits, and a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mystic Skies's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mystic Skies is ranked 219,462^nd in the world and 4,984^th in the West Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -8.37 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.