The Grand Duchy of Meadville is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Duke Mark IV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, flagrant waste-dumping, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.798 billion Meadvilleans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meadville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Meadvillean economy, worth a remarkable 2,992 trillion Meads a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 216,871 Meads, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,345,889 per year while the poor average 15,033, a ratio of 89.5 to 1.

All gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength, nobility is the world's oldest profession, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Meadville's national animal is the Bald Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Protestant Christianity.

Meadville is ranked 31,414^th in the world and 31^st in KAISERREICH for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.91 law-abiding acts per hour.