The People's Republic of Mekat is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Duckspeaker Anonymous with a fair hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.036 billion Mekatians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sterces. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Mekatian economy, worth 129 trillion Deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 125,473 Deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 402,276 per year while the poor average 29,686, a ratio of 13.6 to 1.

Many are questioning Duckspeaker Anonymous wearing an Eckie-Ecola baseball cap during a keynote speech, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, and giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mekat's national animal is the Panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mekat is ranked 168,264^th in the world and 1^st in A New Place at a different Time for Most Extreme, scoring 17.61 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.