The Twenty Four Free lands of Meropis is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 24.551 billion Meropisians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Education, Defense, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Big Place. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Meropisian economy, worth an astonishing 12,828 trillion Pompas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 522,533 Pompas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,805,034 per year while the poor average 110,630, a ratio of 16.3 to 1.

Untold millions of Pompas are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, and badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Meropis's national animal is the Bombus Terrestris, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Truth.

Meropis is ranked 291,619^th in the world and 1,454^th in Europe for Safest, scoring 1.94 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.