The Poppin' Potato of MERIZoC is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Khan Council with a fair hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 27.863 billion Merrans 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bant Haal. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Merrish economy, worth a remarkable 1,623 trillion Codums a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 58,259 Codums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Cults that offer eternal life after death to those who follow a self-sacrificing saviour are frowned upon, a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously", five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime is totally unknown. MERIZoC's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Tengrism.

MERIZoC is ranked 329,679^th in the world and 1^st in Tofulinearity for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -23.2 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.