The Mystery Cult of Demeter is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Demeter with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cheerful population of 18.827 billion Demeteriuses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mount Olympus. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Demeter economy, worth a remarkable 5,806 trillion grains a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 308,393 grains, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, and atheists on vacation find The Eleusian Mysteries's scriptures make useful doorstops. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Demeter's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Eleusian Mysteries.

Demeter is ranked 12,540^th in the world and 3^rd in Greek Islands for Most Influential, scoring 3,851 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.