The Awakening of The Mythical Founder is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Merlin with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and enforced nudity. The compassionate population of 26.707 billion Mythical Founderians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mythicalia. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Mythical Founderian economy, worth a remarkable 1,037 trillion Rings 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, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 38,857 Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced, The Circle of the Raven has been named as The Mythical Founder's national religion, the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds, and frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Mythical Founder's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Circle of the Raven.

The Mythical Founder is ranked 97,821^st in the world and 1^st in Mythical HQ 85 for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.13 law-abiding acts per hour.