The Nationalist Nation of Mercian Legions is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 526 million Mercians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liberty. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mercian economy, worth 66.4 trillion Imperial Currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 126,191 Imperial Currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The police insist that racism does not exist, standing on a chair to reach a top shelf is seen as evidence of narcissistic personality disorder, the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, and family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mercian Legions's national animal is the Sand Manticore.

Mercian Legions is ranked 30,079^th in the world and 633^rd in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,372.56 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.