The Republic of Mercee is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 10 million Mercenaries hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 18.2%.

The Mercen economy, worth 536 billion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,631 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia, and serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Mercee's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mercee is ranked 141,679^th in the world and 2^nd in Heusarei for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,214.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.