The Concert for Nobody of Mellophone is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 2.874 billion Mellophoneans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 27.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Mellophonean economy, worth 111 trillion mouthpieces a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,943 mouthpieces, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas and a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mellophone's national animal is the mourning whales, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Mellophone is ranked 180,780^th in the world and 2^nd in Chessboard for Largest Populations, with 2.87 billion capita.