The Revolutionary Crusader Realm of Mendev is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Queen Galfrey with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.697 billion Mendevians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nerosyan. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Mendevian economy, worth 144 trillion Medevian Crowns a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,410 Medevian Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners, the media have begun calling the government treasury "Queen Galfrey's stash", and owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mendev's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Iomedae.

Mendev is ranked 105,608^th in the world and 3^rd in Odessa Accords for Most Pacifist, with 77.41 cheeks turned per day.