The Federal Republic of Medetas is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Sir Evert Gray with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.185 billion Medetians 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.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neu Osprant. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Medetian economy, worth 96.7 trillion notes 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 81,643 notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, and interest in globalism never flags. Crime is totally unknown. Medetas's national animal is the loon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Medetas is ranked 199,437^th in the world and 1,544^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -9.09 on the Hickory Productivity Index.