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The United States of Meulborne is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime-minister Angela Harris with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, enslaved workforce, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.122 billion Meulborneanos are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Defense, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drunskenberg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Meulborneano economy, worth 232 trillion Francoes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,660 Francoes, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 696,045 per year while the poor average 7,165, a ratio of 97.1 to 1.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare, public hospital staff roll their eyes at anything less than a heart attack, and cults that offer eternal life after death to those who follow a self-sacrificing saviour are frowned upon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meulborne's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meulborne is ranked 142,164^th in the world and 5,327^th in Lazarus for Most Extreme, scoring 19.65 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.