The Mess is a Place of Messy Potamia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Bud-Can Nasser with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 2.168 billion Messy Potamians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Kitchen. The average income tax rate is 14.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Messy Potamian economy, worth 112 trillion tokes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 51,948 tokes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes, Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Messy Potamia's new capital, Bud-Can Nasser has just been declared ruler of Messy Potamia in an international press conference, and Hammer-Robby's Code has been named as Messy Potamia's national religion. Crime is relatively low. Messy Potamia's national animal is the stegasaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hammer-Robby's Code.

Messy Potamia is ranked 278,586^th in the world and 4,497^th in Artificial Solar System for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -12.65 on the Clooney Contribution Index.