The Dominion of Mersialot is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 303 million Mersialotians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 60.6%.

The sizeable but inefficient Mersialotian economy, worth 10.1 trillion vialoes a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 33,340 vialoes, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

The government is full of rats, remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, and genetic researchers have been expelled. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mersialot's national animal is the goat.

Mersialot is ranked 282,804^th in the world and 541^st in Starlight for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -30 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.