The United Kingdom of The Matthew Islands is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Matthew XII with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 24.342 billion Mathians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luton. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Mathian economy, worth a remarkable 4,520 trillion Gills a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 185,720 Gills, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 766,958 per year while the poor average 29,567, a ratio of 25.9 to 1.

Waste is frequently shipped to other countries, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. The Matthew Islands's national animal is the Panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Matthew Islands is ranked 104,619^th in the world and 5,294^th in Balder for Highest Poor Incomes, with 29,567.51 Standard Monetary Units.