The Tiki Archipelago of Portmanteau is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Queen Passeʻencore with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 2.419 billion Manteaus are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Manteau. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Manteau economy, worth 266 trillion cowrie shells a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 110,315 cowrie shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Portmanteau will pay them to stop, all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society, shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes, and the government is proud to report that ten percent of all tax revenue goes to funding suspected terrorist organizations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Portmanteau's national animal is the Insular Pangolin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pau Hana Time.

Portmanteau is ranked 126,498^th in the world and 126^th in Refugia for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 117,206 Standard Monetary Units.