The Dreadlord of Mephistroth is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.126 billion Mephistrothians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Mephistrothian economy, worth 939 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 183,362 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 546,817 per year while the poor average 48,146, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

The people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, foreigners write "made in Mephistroth" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and Mephistroth City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mephistroth's national animal is the hermit crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Mephistroth is ranked 307,766^th in the world and 10^th in The Burning Legion for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.69 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.