The Queen's State of Meldrum Bay is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its enforced nudity and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 28.504 billion Meldrum Bayians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 49.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Meldrum Bayian economy, worth 393 trillion betales a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 13,818 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, genetic researchers have been expelled, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meldrum Bay's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Meldrum Bay is ranked 101,375^th in the world and 1^st in Meldrum Bay for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,045 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.