The Queendom of MANILA-CENTRAL is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Lady Manila with an even hand, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, disturbing lack of elderly people, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 3.227 billion Manilans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vash the Stampede City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Manilan economy, worth 888 trillion kengirs a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 275,379 kengirs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,693,283 per year while the poor average 19,546, a ratio of 86.6 to 1.

The booming slave trade is now government-funded, young girls often attend the same schools as their children, paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark, and recent events in Dàguó have been classified 'for Lady Manila's eyes only'. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. MANILA-CENTRAL's national animal is the earthworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Law of Assumption.

MANILA-CENTRAL is ranked 14,984^th in the world and 28^th in Eientei Gensokyo for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,235.37 pounds of wildlife per square mile.