The Free Land of Greater Mericure is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Opulentior Maximus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, complete absence of social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.119 billion Greater Mericureans 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, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Education, with Healthcare and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Administration aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hedonopolis. The average income tax rate is 3.5%.

The all-consuming Greater Mericurean economy, worth 650 trillion peccans a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 127,149 peccans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, citizens are expected to be armed at all times, unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, and citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Greater Mericure's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is peccanism.

Greater Mericure is ranked 102,255^th in the world and 96^th in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,350.53 on the Gilded Widget Scale.