The Holy Empire of Meiara is a large, genial nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 99 million Meiarans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Meiaran economy, worth 1.90 trillion Utrias a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Pizza Delivery and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 19,197 Utrias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, on-duty Air Meiara flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, and government workers are regularly taken hostage by protesters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meiara's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meiara is ranked 68,379^th in the world and 67^th in Sophia for Most Patriotic, with 20.57 flags saluted per person per day.