The Socialist Empire of Merijnteren Empire is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Galactic Emperor Evgeni Francis with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.054 billion Merijnenterens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Merijnenteria. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Merijnenteren economy, worth a remarkable 1,063 trillion Merijnenteren Guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 262,238 Merijnenteren Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Merijnteren Empire recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Merijnteren Empire's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Merijnteren Empire is ranked 133,145^th in the world and 221^st in The Communist Bloc for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 761.28 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.