The Community of Mara Xen is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 236 million Mara Xenians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mara Xenian economy, worth 12.0 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is 50,792 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies, literally voiceless people are unable to protest when food and water are denied to them, escalators are avoided at all costs, and reflex hammers and sickle cell research are uniform comrades. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mara Xen's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mara Xen is ranked 46,594^th in the world and 347^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.