The United States of Meulborne is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Yuri Houjweinstein with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 958 million Meulborneanos enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drunskenberg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Meulborneano economy, worth 94.5 trillion Francoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 98,651 Francoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 366,655 per year while the poor average 18,650, a ratio of 19.7 to 1.

Human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, protests are legal but strictly supervised, and the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Meulborne's national animal is the Urso, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meulborne is ranked 52,401^st in the world and 120^th in United Kingdom for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,750.87 on the Gilded Widget Scale.