The Emirate of Mendias is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 4.482 billion Mendiasians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.1%.

The very strong Mendiasian economy, worth 222 trillion etherums a year, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is 49,583 etherums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 179,060 per year while the poor average 9,805, a ratio of 18.3 to 1.

Royalist is the most offensive slur in the Mendiasian language, cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high, Mendias has designated Mendias City as its capital city, and the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem. Mendias's national animal is the Falcon, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Mendias is ranked 179,911^th in the world and 1^st in Celestial Realms for Largest Black Market, with 692 billion Standard Monetary Units.