The Republic of Malarkea is a mid-sized, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 95 million Malarkeans 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 35.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Malarkean economy, worth 6.42 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 67,629 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, children are terrified that the 'flying police monster' will come to take them away in the night, and the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Malarkea's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Malarkea is ranked 287,850^th in the world and 255^th in Eurth for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -8.37 on the Clooney Contribution Index.