The Kingdom of PlanetMercury is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Freddie Mercury with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 4.773 billion PlanetMercuries are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bulsara. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient PlanetMercuryian economy, worth a remarkable 1,102 trillion pounds a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 230,900 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, the nation is loathed abroad for dumping all of its waste in international waters, and kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PlanetMercury's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

PlanetMercury is ranked 248,947^th in the world and 12,998^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -68.42 on the Hayek Index.