The Armed Republic of -Mustang- is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Roy with an iron fist, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.153 billion Mustangians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amestris. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mustangian economy, worth a remarkable 2,900 trillion cenzes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 285,652 cenzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials, and bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. -Mustang-'s national animal is the dog, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

-Mustang- is ranked 1,374^th in the world and 126^th in NationStates for Most Corrupt Governments, with 421.09 kickbacks per hour.