The Dictatorship of Merlance is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Merci with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, frequent executions, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.19 billion Mercians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cania. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Mercean economy, worth 991 trillion Conchias 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 310,745 Conchias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number, and being impolite in public is punishable by heavy fines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Merlance's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Mercism.

Merlance is ranked 123,055^th in the world and 3^rd in Atrax for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,248.4 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.