The Most Serene Republic of Merir is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Evil Overlord with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, triple-decker prams, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 24.554 billion Merirans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mr Happys Funland. The average income tax rate is 84.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Meririan economy, worth a remarkable 4,611 trillion chelbuchebs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 187,811 chelbuchebs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government is said to have a martyrdom complex, government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares, baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward, and national foreign policy involves significant amounts of hand wringing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Merir's national animal is the manta ray, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is The Order of Violet.

Merir is ranked 184,727^th in the world and 8,133^rd in Balder for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -3 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.