The Federation of Marcelli is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by The Grand Chancellor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 8.985 billion Marcellians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Transientia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.8%.

The very strong Marcellian economy, worth 680 trillion Banknotes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 75,662 Banknotes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 229,560 per year while the poor average 19,386, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Citizens select which government department gets their income tax Banknotes each year, foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, and rare steaks seem even bluer now. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marcelli's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Everyanteism.

Marcelli is ranked 41,158^th in the world and 1^st in Tolland for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,906.01 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.