The Armed Republic of Microplastics Everywhere Land is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.717 billion Microplastics Everywhere Landians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.7%.

The thriving Microplastics Everywhere Landian economy, worth 341 trillion Kopeks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 59,754 Kopeks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 279,548 per year while the poor average 7,630, a ratio of 36.6 to 1.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones, most Microplastics Everywhere Landian video games are banned in other countries, and immigrants who don't like the taste of Microplastics Everywhere Landian Turnip Chips are immediately deported. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Microplastics Everywhere Land's national animal is the Snail, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Microplastics Everywhere Land is ranked 298,516^th in the world and 14^th in Save Our Planet for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -6.32 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.