The Federal Village of MountAye is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Prime Villager with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, unlimited-speed roads, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 7.418 billion MountAyers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tsingtao. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient MountAyean economy, worth a remarkable 1,372 trillion bottle caps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 184,980 bottle caps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend, there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety, grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths, and postcards from MountAyean driving test centres are popular souvenirs. Crime is totally unknown. MountAye's national animal is the sea dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Philosophy of Science.

MountAye is ranked 8,379^th in the world and 11^th in Philosophers for Most Cultured, scoring 127 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.