The Principality of Mierel is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 587 million Mierelians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magisfair. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.8%.

The powerhouse Mierelian economy, worth 49.6 trillion Poké Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,462 Poké Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

A widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat", passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", and Leader is worshipped as a god. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mierel's national animal is the phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Mierel is ranked 166,778^th in the world and 6^th in Chaldea for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 1,452.27 on the Hickory Productivity Index.