The People's Republic of Meirenyu is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 308 million Porcelianas 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, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Meirenyuan economy, worth 14.9 trillion Conches a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 48,531 Conches, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meirenyu's national animal is the Vampire Squid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Meirenyu is ranked 56,345^th in the world and 1,204^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 133.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.