The Cooperative State of Mel-akkam is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Pujari Adhineta with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.398 billion Mel-akkans 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mohenjo-daro. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mel-akkan economy, worth 399 trillion bangles 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 major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 117,484 bangles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Pujari Adhineta to meetings with foreign heads of state, Mel-akkans refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, bins outnumber trees in city parks, and the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Mel-akkam. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mel-akkam's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mel-akkam is ranked 28,799^th in the world and 27^th in The Internationale for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,821.32 on the Gilded Widget Scale.