The Principate of Montecrux is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Marina Merchan with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.305 billion Montelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Olphys. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Montelian economy, worth 291 trillion Crossed Deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,654 Crossed Deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Montelian grocery store, and students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Montecrux's national animal is the Royal Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catharism.

Montecrux is ranked 34,229^th in the world and 364^th in Europe for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,218.51 on the Gilded Widget Scale.