The Backstroke of the West of Naval Monte is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Monique D'Aubainne with a fair hand, and remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, smutty television, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 14.174 billion Naval Monteans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carmina Gadelica. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Naval Montean economy, worth a remarkable 2,795 trillion Gil Stirlings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 197,194 Gil Stirlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, the fattest folk in Naval Monte look to be the happiest ones, and there is something rotten in the state of Naval Monte. Crime is totally unknown. Naval Monte's national animal is the Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cosmicism.

Naval Monte is ranked 106,683^rd in the world and 50^th in The Bar on the corner of every region for Largest Black Market, with 409 billion Standard Monetary Units.