The Featured Region Event of A Giant Meteor is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Halley Comet with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.174 billion Meteorians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toutatis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Meteorian economy, worth 730 trillion Lodestones a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 175,017 Lodestones, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water, people experiencing anaphylactic shock are told to buck their ideas up, and imprisonment is the leading cause of disownment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Giant Meteor's national animal is the Ameoba, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Feature.

A Giant Meteor is ranked 244,456^th in the world and 62^nd in The Great Experiment for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -30 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.