The Featured Region Event of A Giant Meteor is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Halley Comet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, aversion to nipples, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.325 billion Meteorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toutatis. The average income tax rate is 75.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Meteorian economy, worth a remarkable 2,156 trillion Lodestones a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 190,382 Lodestones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The Meteorian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, the alien invasion siren sounds eerily like a UFO, arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, and construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Giant Meteor's national animal is the Ameoba, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Feature.

A Giant Meteor is ranked 271,643^rd in the world and 30^th in Bigtopia for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 368.32 on the Societal Mobility Rating.