The Republic of Memento Mori 10 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.199 billion Memento Mori 10ians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The thriving Memento Mori 10ian economy, worth 544 trillion Stargates a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 75,692 Stargates, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 267,927 per year while the poor average 15,439, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Memento Mori 10's national animal is the Mori, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Memento Mori 10 is ranked 250,618^th in the world and 51^st in Stargate for Lowest Crime Rates, with 51.72 law-abiding acts per hour.