The Free Land of The Black Mesa Remnant is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sidney Biermann with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 5.114 billion Combine enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City 212. The average income tax rate is 74.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Combine economy, worth 588 trillion Mesa Counts a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,004 Mesa Counts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

International commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism, all recreational drugs are legal, textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, and politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Black Mesa Remnant's national animal is the Headcrab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Headcrabism.

The Black Mesa Remnant is ranked 19,413^th in the world and 1,183^rd in Osiris for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 8,166.41 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.