The Islamic People's Caliphate of Merien is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Caliph John Merien with an even hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 3.602 billion Meriennais are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Merienabad. The average income tax rate is 43.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Meriennais economy, worth 244 trillion Meriennais Dirhams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Retail, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 67,864 Meriennais Dirhams, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Meriennais tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, M-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, and in the mighty jungle the lion once again sleeps tonight. Crime is totally unknown. Merien's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sunni Islam.

Merien is ranked 109,058^th in the world and 5^th in Warzone Australia for Highest Drug Use, scoring 158.54 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.