The Little Gunboat that Could of USS Merrimack is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Captain Franklin Buchanan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.452 billion Merrimackians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hampton Roads. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving USS Merrimackian economy, worth a remarkable 1,029 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,547 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got, the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable, wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high, and doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion. Crime is totally unknown. USS Merrimack's national animal is the Bald Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

USS Merrimack is ranked 315,994^th in the world and 15^th in Warzone Europe for Most Patriotic, with 0.94 flags saluted per person per day.