The Democratic Republic of The Malacca Strait is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 690 million Malacca Straitians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Malacca City. The average income tax rate is 88.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Malacca Straitian economy, worth 62.9 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 91,121 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly, tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities, pretending to be prejudiced is a good way to get out of jury duty, and access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Malacca Strait's national animal is the Malayan tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Malacca Strait is ranked 177,638^th in the world and 131^st in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 57.35 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.