The Holy Empire of Mausenhausen is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 482 million Mausenhausenians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.5%.

The thriving Mausenhausenian economy, worth 34.0 trillion Mäuses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 70,583 Mäuses, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, Mausenhausen has designated Mausenhausen City as its capital city, a performance of the hit musical "Mamma Tua" has been delayed after squatters were found sleeping in the orchestra pit, and the Mausenhausen City Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Mausenhausen's national animal is the Mouse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mausenhausen is ranked 103,103^rd in the world and 158^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,328.73 on the Gilded Widget Scale.