The Dizzying Perspective of So Meta is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Observatron with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 10.246 billion So Metans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sprawl. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient So Metan economy, worth a remarkable 1,899 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 185,404 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rumor has it that Observatron has won three lotteries in a row, imitation is the sincerest form of felony, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. So Meta's national animal is the Air Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Navel Gazing.

So Meta is ranked 288,645^th in the world and 4^th in Schopenhauer for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.41 kickbacks per hour.