The Featured Region Event of A Giant Meteor is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Halley Comet with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.806 billion Meteorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toutatis. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Meteorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,209 trillion Lodestones a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 208,354 Lodestones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, and Amnesty Interregional has condemned A Giant Meteor for ignoring crimes against humanity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Giant Meteor's national animal is the Ameoba, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Feature.

A Giant Meteor is ranked 920^th in the world and 1^st in Triad Archipelago for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 25,197.15 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.