The Fond Pretence of Christopher Marlowe is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 10.625 billion Christopher Marloweans, 10.112 billion of whom are zombies, 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, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canterbury. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The enormous but sluggish Christopher Marlowean economy, worth a remarkable 3,501 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,260 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is a growing belief that mothers love their children more than fathers, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, and foreigners write "made in Christopher Marlowe" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out. Crime is totally unknown. Christopher Marlowe's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Christopher Marlowe is ranked 10,791^st in the world and 4^th in Universal Dream Network for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,672.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.