The Republic of Maravello is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Enrico Solano with an even hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 15.74 billion Maravellans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lakona. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Maravellan economy, worth a remarkable 1,221 trillion Gold Coins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,621 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, school lockers are filled with fancy underwear, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, and the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners. Crime is totally unknown. Maravello's national animal is the Reef Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Olipai.

Maravello is ranked 17,141^st in the world and 2^nd in Bastion for Most Cultured, scoring 92 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.