The 🅕🅡🅔🅔 🄻🄰🄽🄳 of Meropis is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, infamous sell-swords, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 20.312 billion Meropisians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Education and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Big Place. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Meropisian economy, worth a remarkable 7,893 trillion Pompas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 388,614 Pompas, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,214,504 per year while the poor average 33,125, a ratio of 66.9 to 1.

Belief that The Leader is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high, illegal immigration remains a hot topic, sushi is sold on the black market, and rumor has it that The Leader has won three lotteries in a row. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Meropis's national animal is the Bombus terrestris, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Truth.

Meropis is ranked 2,893^rd in the world and 52^nd in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,931.4 pounds of wildlife per square mile.