The Democratic People's Republic of Merangue is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Chairman Măƙh with an iron fist, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.49 billion Merangueans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pphănghanĥa City. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Meranguean economy, worth 127 trillion People's Meranguean Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 85,477 People's Meranguean Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens, there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days, East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', and remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Merangue's national animal is the Meranguean Bittern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Meranguean Standard Shamanism.

Merangue is ranked 22,837^th in the world and 492^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 7,504.2 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.