The United Socialist States of Masiona is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 273 million Masionans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vellion. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Masionan economy, worth 12.1 trillion danks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 44,256 danks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event, Masiona's heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, and diplomacy is a foreign concept to Masionans. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Masiona's national animal is the white whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Masiona is ranked 129,762^nd in the world and 183^rd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 819.15 on the Gilded Widget Scale.