The Department of Meuse is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Muriel Nguyen with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 28.599 billion Meusiens 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bar-le-Duc. The average income tax rate is 47.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Meusien economy, worth a remarkable 1,357 trillion guldens a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,466 guldens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, insanely good theatre productions face government censorship, government critics have noticed a lot of new neighbors with expensive surveillance equipment in their garages, and doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meuse's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Meuse is ranked 65,009^th in the world and 8^th in Department Store for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,370.72 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.