The State of M113 is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.502 billion M113ians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The strong M113ian economy, worth 378 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 58,205 betales, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 319,699 per year while the poor average 5,386, a ratio of 59.4 to 1.

Surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. M113's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

M113 is ranked 46,067^th in the world and 5^th in Joint Command for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 55,527.88 Standard Monetary Units.