The Impending baldness of Ethel mermania is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Fearless Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 29.888 billion Ethel mermanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great White Way. The average income tax rate is 27.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ethel mermanian economy, worth a remarkable 7,740 trillion yids a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Tourism, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 258,998 yids, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All recreational drugs are legal, double-parking is on the rise as automobile numbers increase, it's illegal to be caught on tape, and ethel merman populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethel mermania's national animal is the ethel merman, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is the cult of fearless leaderism.

Ethel mermania is ranked 289,450^th in the world and 8^th in Snazzy for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -20.98 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.