The United States of Mediocraty is a large, safe nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 129 million Mediocratians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mediocratyian economy, worth 3.35 trillion Sepals a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,948 Sepals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Snap elections are called over every minor impasse, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu, and it turns out that the government can have your guns by prying them out of your warm living hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mediocraty's national animal is the Golden chickadee.

Mediocraty is ranked 246,466^th in the world and 546^th in Saint Osmund for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 28.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.