The Free Land of The Black Mesa Remnant is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sidney Biermann with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate population of 5.197 billion Combine enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City 212. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Combine economy, worth 588 trillion Mesa Counts a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,203 Mesa Counts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Combine doors require a Ph.D. to open, ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, and unemployed school bus drivers photobomb virtual classroom meetings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Black Mesa Remnant's national animal is the Headcrab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Headcrabism.

The Black Mesa Remnant is ranked 82,760^th in the world and 3,345^th in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,066.12 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.