The Nation and State of Maas is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by the Directorate with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, rampant corporate plagiarism, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.953 billion Maase are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maasen. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Maase economy, worth a remarkable 4,188 trillion polar crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 167,839 polar crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

If someone says there's plenty of living space in Maas they're lyin', pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, leisure is a crime in ski towns, and faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers. Crime is totally unknown. Maas's national animal is the hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is secular.

Maas is ranked 12,392^nd in the world and 3^rd in Arctic for Most Developed, scoring 89.36 on the Human Development Index.