The United Kingdom of Marie Byrd is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Terrance with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.613 billion Marie Byrdians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deheubarth. The average income tax rate is 88.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marie Byrdian economy, worth a remarkable 1,525 trillion Grant Island Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 200,446 Grant Island Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, shouting contests are an important part of government job interviews, CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, and the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marie Byrd's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Church of Marie Byrd.

Marie Byrd is ranked 67,394^th in the world and 149^th in Thaecia for Most Income Equality, scoring 52.26 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.