The United Tribes of Merconitonitopia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the High Elder with an even hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, ritual sacrifices, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.444 billion Merconites are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Defense, with Environment, Spirituality, and Industry also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drekk Kause Pyo. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Merconite economy, worth a remarkable 3,502 trillion denars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 335,401 denars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the Drekk Kause Pyo Barnacles' triumph against long odds, warning signs caution Merconites where they may fall off 'the edge of the world', and the state believes that children are what you make of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Merconitonitopia's national animal is the barnacle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Way of the Light.

Merconitonitopia is ranked 187,045^th in the world and 10,247^th in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -28.08 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.