The Coping Mechanism of Mediocre Talents is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by App A Thetik with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.622 billion Mediocrites are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Languorous Daydream. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Mediocre Talentsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,460 trillion Toothpicks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 169,399 Toothpicks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, and the fire protection service is wholly government-funded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mediocre Talents's national animal is the Talentless Goose, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Existential Crisis.

Mediocre Talents is ranked 2,040^th in the world and 30^th in the West Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3,643.44 pounds of wildlife per square mile.