# Mearef Country Brief — Middle East Government Reference Data

> Mearef Country Brief — Middle East Government Reference Data is a paid API for AI agents from mearef.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Returns every covered government reference data series for a single Middle Eastern country in one cited JSON response, including policy rates, taxes, wages, CPI, FX, and public holidays.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mearef.dev/v1/brief/%7Bcountry%7D?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mearef-country-brief-middle-east-government-reference-data-3d186d63
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uTdvzFIqol4rrkkr--MTm

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability mearef-country-brief-middle-east-government-reference-data-3d186d63
```

Example prompt: Give me the full country brief for Saudi Arabia — every official government series mearef has: policy rate, VAT, corporate and personal tax, minimum wage, CPI, FX rates, public holidays, and filing deadlines, all with their source citations.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need ALL available government reference data series for a single Middle Eastern country in one call rather than fetching individual series separately. It is ideal for compliance onboarding, investment due diligence, or building country dashboards where breadth matters. Use the single-fact or cross-country endpoints instead if you only need one specific metric or want to compare one series across multiple countries.

## Known failure modes

- Country not in the 9 supported Middle Eastern nations returns a refusal or empty response
- Stale data flag set if official source has not been re-confirmed recently
- Invalid or unrecognised country identifier returns an error
- Payment failure via x402/MPP results in 402 response and no data returned
- Partial coverage: some series may be absent for certain countries if not officially published

## How this service works

Middle Eastern government reference data for 9 countries as cited JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT/GST and VAT registration thresholds, CPI, corporate, personal and withholding tax, social contributions, minimum wages, statutory interest, official FX rates, filing deadlines and public holidays (coverage varies by country). Every value carries its official source URL and last-confirmed date. Single facts $0.003; country brief (every series for one country) $0.01; cross-country compare (one series, up to 10 countries) $0.02; tax-ID and VAT-number checks $0.003; computed answers (VAT, income tax, working days, minimum-wage check) $0.01-$0.02. Pay per call in USDC on Base via x402 or MPP, no signup, or by card with credit packs or monthly plans on one key valid across all 7 regional services. Free tier: GET /catalog, plus a free email key with 50 answer calls a day, commercial use allowed. Finished answers, one cited dossier per call (supported countries vary per job; others are refused free): cost this hire (wage-floor verdict, contributions, employer cost) $0.50; charge this sale (which VAT applies, net/VAT/gross) $0.50; charge this sale certified (plus a signed VAT-rate extract) $0.75; invoice due date and statutory late interest $0.40; country evidence pack (brief plus signed extracts) $0.25; hire compare $0.75 for 2 countries, $1.00 for 3-5; next filings (VAT, PAYE, corporate-tax due dates rolled for holidays) $0.35.

Free trial: 3 computed-answer calls per day per IP on POST /v1/answers/* with header X-Free-Trial: 1 (without it, the normal x402 402; once used up, the 402 carries free_trial_resets_at). MCP answer tools use the trial automatically when no api_key is passed. Every series of the evaluation country is free. Card credit (same per-call price as x402): /pricing.

## Output

A single cited JSON dossier containing every government reference series mearef covers for the requested country, including central-bank policy rate, VAT rate and registration threshold, CPI, corporate/personal/withholding tax rates, social contributions, minimum wages, statutory interest rate, official FX rates, filing deadlines, and public holidays. Each data point includes its official source URL and last-confirmed date, plus a staleness indicator.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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