The Empire of Megistos is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Mysterious Idol with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 7.863 billion Megistians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paix. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Megistia economy, worth a remarkable 2,023 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 257,383 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 901,515 per year while the poor average 53,354, a ratio of 16.9 to 1.

People with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, sick Megistians are hair today and gone tomorrow, and medical lawsuits are out of control. Crime is totally unknown. Megistos's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Phoenixi.

Megistos is ranked 230,784^th in the world and 3,252^nd in the South Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 8.31 Obesity Rate.