The Republic of Mesoslavia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its national health service, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 546 million Mesoslavs are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francisco Franco. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Mesoslavian economy, worth 41.2 trillion pesetas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,376 pesetas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, major boxing matches are held in government buildings, being dead no longer has any benefits, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mesoslavia's national animal is the Falangist Tung Tung Tung Sahur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mesoslavia is ranked 73,536^th in the world and 166^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 130.72 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.