The Alliance of Smugglers and Mercs is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by apemax with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 27.455 billion Smugglers and Mercsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Smugglers and Mercs City. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Smugglers and Mercsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,956 trillion pounds a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 144,096 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Psychiatrists bizarrely accompany apemax to meetings with foreign heads of state, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-pound mansions, the "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery, and census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smugglers and Mercs's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is a major religion.

Smugglers and Mercs is ranked 75^th in the world and 4^th in 10000 Islands for Most Developed, scoring 99.98 on the Human Development Index.