The Andenian Spiritual Union of Mettia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sol Metta with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 11.235 billion Mettians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jokinton. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Mettian economy, worth a remarkable 3,093 trillion Shekels a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 275,386 Shekels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer, and it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mettia's national animal is the wonder deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mysticism.

Mettia is ranked 4,583^rd in the world and 8^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Highest Economic Output, with 3,093 trillion Standard Monetary Units.