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The Kingdom of Meritamon is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 12.188 billion Meris are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kuso. The average income tax rate is 23.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Meritamonian economy, worth 643 trillion Hedjs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,805 Hedjs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, all beauty contests have been banned, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, and the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meritamon's national animal is the Crododile, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meritamon is ranked 50,165^th in the world and 1^st in Udaipur for Largest Populations, with 12.2 billion capita.