The Free Land of Sir Henry Morton Stanley is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 2.283 billion Sir Henry Morton Stanleyians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tanganyika. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.0%.

The very strong Sir Henry Morton Stanleyian economy, worth 116 trillion Shillings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Average income is 50,842 Shillings, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, in its new More is More campaign the government advertises obese men and women posing coquettishly with baked goods to spare their blushes, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Sir Henry Morton Stanley's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley is ranked 136,074^th in the world and 2^nd in Save The Planet for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 71.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.