The Most Serene Republic of Starlit Merethin is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, prohibition of alcohol, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 2.577 billion Starlit Merethinians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.6%.
The frighteningly efficient Starlit Merethinian economy, worth 216 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,908 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.
Drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes, and a tax exemption has created a new hunger for octogenarian millionaires dating women 60 years their younger. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlit Merethin's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Starlit Merethin is ranked 133,809th in the world and 26th in Mirror World 99 for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 779.07 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, a tax exemption has created a new hunger for octogenarian millionaires dating women 60 years their younger.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, pinkie promises are a matter of life and death.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, the nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low.
- : Following new legislation in Starlit Merethin, building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure.