The Grand Duchy of Mamedde is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, smutty television, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.237 billion Mameddeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The large, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Mameddean economy, worth 142 trillion florins a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 115,519 florins, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 736,024 per year while the poor average 7,471, a ratio of 98.5 to 1.

Wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans, and the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Mameddeans any less frightened. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Mamedde's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mamedde is ranked 286,524^th in the world and 1,023^rd in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.94 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.