The Land Down Under of Merlovich is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 11.802 billion Merlovichans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hirane. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Merlovichan economy, worth a remarkable 1,853 trillion Merlovichan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 157,019 Merlovichan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to, it's always rabbit season, and door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Merlovich's national animal is the Wallaby, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dispatchism.

Merlovich is ranked 21,771^st in the world and 548^th in The East Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 111.53 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.