The Predator Drone of Mercader is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, unlimited-speed roads, and restrictive gun laws. The devout population of 31.153 billion Mercaderians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Mercaderian economy, worth a remarkable 1,014 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 32,557 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, the same 31153 social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with Leader's every word on Twitcher, and troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mercader's national animal is the ^-^, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mercader is ranked 281,895^th in the world and 1^st in Valparaiso for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -8.66 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.