The Coping Mechanism of Mediocre Talents is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by App A Thetik with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.641 billion Mediocrites are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Languorous Daydream. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Mediocre Talentsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,463 trillion Toothpicks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 169,326 Toothpicks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fire protection service is wholly government-funded, human pie shops continue to receive shipments of meat from Spleeny Rodd's, the government subsidises medicines of mass destruction, and the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mediocre Talents's national animal is the Talentless Goose, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Existential Crisis.

Mediocre Talents is ranked 289,840^th in the world and 3,701^st in the West Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.32 kickbacks per hour.