The Senatrist-Kutaharkist State of Meridian Republic is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by President Kutáḫarku Túrukalzi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 833 million Meridians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cervus-Dei-Lignam. The average income tax rate is 81.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Meridian economy, worth 62.1 trillion Ruons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 74,565 Ruons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class, employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams, and seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meridian Republic's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meridian Republic is ranked 277,314^th in the world and 18^th in The Charter for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.8 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.