The Holy Lucky Christmas of Montrandec is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, deadly medical pandemics, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 7.685 billion Lucky Locals are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Law & Order and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hampford. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Lucky economy, worth a remarkable 1,398 trillion Gold Brains a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 181,968 Gold Brains, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 903,987 per year while the poor average 20,721, a ratio of 43.6 to 1.

Economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society, relatives of recent award winners find their trophies make stylish urns, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, and children grow up believing the sun to be a myth. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Montrandec's national animal is the Rudolph Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Athyism.

Montrandec is ranked 280,080^th in the world and 3,780^th in the West Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.37 average smiles per day.