The Most Serene Republic of Minona is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 45 million Minonans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 40.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Minonan economy, worth 1.32 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,387 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita, spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home, all streets are privately owned toll roads, and the Minona Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Minona's national animal is the llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Minona is ranked 123,946^th in the world and 3,465^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.