The Republic of Mephita is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 245 million Mephitans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Mephitan economy, worth 16.5 trillion credits 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 Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. Average income is 67,193 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military funding has been stripped back, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and time flies when you're not having fun. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mephita's national animal is the sturgeon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Mephita is ranked 152,733^rd in the world and 2,197^th in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -55.56 on the Scary Big Number Scale.