The United Socialist States of The Socialist Peoples Republic of Merka is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, digital currency, and smutty television. The compassionate, cheerful population of 17.564 billion Merkans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Washington DC. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Merkan economy, worth a remarkable 3,089 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 175,902 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Postcards from Merkan driving test centres are popular souvenirs, the nation's war memorials are being torn down and replaced with peace gardens, a passport is literally priceless, and military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Socialist Peoples Republic of Merka's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Socialist Peoples Republic of Merka is ranked 281,482^nd in the world and 3,940^th in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -367.18 on the Scary Big Number Scale.