The Empire of Manc is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 93 million Mancians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 27.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Mancian economy, worth 6.84 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,580 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Manc, the nation's gigantic air force is both respected and feared, condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals, and teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Manc's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Manc is ranked 55,749^th in the world and 187^th in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.