The Democratic States of Mariarty is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 18.904 billion Mariartyians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mariarty City. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mariartyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,627 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 86,095 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, passionate nomination battles are often as intense as general elections, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mariarty's national animal is the Velociraptor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Mariarty is ranked 39,229^th in the world and 692^nd in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 74 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.