The Republic of Meromictic is a colossal, pleasant nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.067 billion Meromicticians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 22.0%.

The Meromictician economy, worth 140 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 45,939 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

It's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and supervisors in Meromictic commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meromictic's national animal is the shoop, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Meromictic is ranked 162,425^th in the world and 1^st in Labradorite for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 973.39 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.