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The Union of Mottervateis is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Kennedy Cooper with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 1.439 billion Mottervateisians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ocenta. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Mottervateisian economy, worth 163 trillion Ikrains a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 113,901 Ikrains, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, nations across the world are quick to praise Kennedy Cooper's good looks and intellectual prowess, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and warfare increasingly resembles a video game. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mottervateis's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Arupito.

Mottervateis is ranked 286,024^th in the world and 167^th in Fifth Empire for Most Conservative, scoring 26.08 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.