The Featured Region Event of A Giant Meteor is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Halley Comet with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, public floggings, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.575 billion Meteorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toutatis. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Meteorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion Lodestones a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 207,974 Lodestones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Many in A Giant Meteor are born in the purple, constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas", autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum, and prematurely retired barristers twitch in anxiety when they talk about their courtroom experiences. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 247,299^th in the world and 7^th in dirty place for Highest Crime Rates, with 1.95 crimes per hour.