The Kingdom of PlanetMercury is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Freddie Mercury with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, enslaved workforce, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 9.019 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kensington. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient PlanetMercuryian economy, worth a remarkable 3,051 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 338,298 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The death penalty has been reintroduced, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists, and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 15,179^th in the world and 563^rd in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,189.44 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.