The United Kingdom of Mediama is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Jessica L Williams III with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, sprawling nuclear power plants, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, hard-working population of 19.868 billion Mediamen have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illustrantia. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediaman economy, worth a remarkable 3,599 trillion Pounds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 181,167 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age, the sanitised and dull music festivals of Mediama are famed for their reasonable volume levels, social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside, and chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mediama's national animal is the Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Anglicanism.

Mediama is ranked 41,175^th in the world and 1^st in The Strategic and Economic Alliance for Nudest, with 214 cheeks per square mile.