The United Mangrove Archipelago of Ransium is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Scipio with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, hatred of cheese, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 29.433 billion Ransites enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Environment, although Healthcare, Social Policy, and Industry are also considered important, while Defense and Administration are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mangrove City. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ransiumian economy, worth a remarkable 5,689 trillion Cloyns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 193,306 Cloyns, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 634,970 per year while the poor average 44,132, a ratio of 14.4 to 1.

The art of conversation has been rediscovered, foreign nations often blame poverty and terrorism on Ransiumian selfishness, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, and a milk bath costs more than bathing in money. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ransium's national animal is the Tiger Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Mangrovism.

Ransium is ranked 2,078^th in the world and 1^st in Forest for Most World Assembly Endorsements, with 94 Valid Endorsements.