The Kingdom of Metrogolon is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, ritual sacrifices, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, devout population of 2.154 billion Metrogolonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of kironal. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Metrogolonian economy, worth 237 trillion kreons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 110,290 kreons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot, untold millions of kreons are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, frequent flyers are chiseled into statues, and the musical cognoscenti insist the national anthem just isn't the same without a double contrabass flute. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Metrogolon's national animal is the horned owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Metrogolon is ranked 43,147^th in the world and 810^th in the South Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,252.73 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.