The Nationalist Nation of Mercian Legions is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 590 million Mercians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liberty. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mercian economy, worth 72.0 trillion Imperial Currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 122,020 Imperial Currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Edutainment video games are taking Mercian Legions's students to the next level, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", scientists have great chemistry with their subjects, and families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mercian Legions's national animal is the Sand Manticore.

Mercian Legions is ranked 32,216^th in the world and 553^rd in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 36.99 flags saluted per person per day.