The Queen's State of Meissa is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of public education, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.58 billion Meissans 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, prioritizes Industry, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Welfare aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The powerhouse Meissan economy, worth 963 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 49,223 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 174,236 per year while the poor average 10,040, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

The government is avowedly atheist and elections have been outlawed. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Meissa's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meissa is ranked 182,658^th in the world and 497^th in Ancient Lands for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring zero on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.