The Carthusian Hermit of Fatty the Marmot is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Abbot Fatty with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 13.98 billion Marmots are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand Chartreuse. The average income tax rate is 41.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Marmeltier economy, worth 512 trillion Clovers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,646 Clovers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, Abbot Fatty has just been declared ruler of Fatty the Marmot in an international press conference, Fatty the Marmot has designated Grand Chartreuse as its capital city, and Carthusian Use Catholicism has been named as Fatty the Marmot's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fatty the Marmot's national animal is the Woodchuck, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Carthusian Use Catholicism.

Fatty the Marmot is ranked 63,060^th in the world and 2^nd in Royal Federal Republic of Free States for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.19 law-abiding acts per hour.