The Flatlanders of Mesamela is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its aversion to nipples, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 6.279 billion Mesamelans 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shargwyll. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Mesamelan economy, worth 328 trillion centis a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,391 centis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience, and the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mesamela's national animal is the wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mesamela is ranked 236,757^th in the world and 1^st in Union of Danburg for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2.83 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.