The Free Land of Meraud is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Administrator Alexandersson with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 5.544 billion Meraudians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Industry, with Administration and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mercan. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Meraudian economy, worth a remarkable 1,268 trillion Pallas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 228,851 Pallas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 761,700 per year while the poor average 51,235, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

The nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job, politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech, and bin lorries have replaced birds as the source of the dawn chorus. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Meraud's national animal is the Plesiosaur, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Parva Christi.

Meraud is ranked 330,472^nd in the world and 7^th in Anti Discord Alliance for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -25.1 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.