The Anomaly of Marie V is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lady Marie with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 22.141 billion Marieans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Public Transport, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mariea. The average income tax rate is 56.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Mariean economy, worth 410 trillion Euros a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 18,537 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Marie V has designated Mariea as its capital city, Lady Marie has just been declared ruler of Marie V in an international press conference, The Worship of Marie has been named as Marie V's national religion, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marie V's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Worship of Marie.

Marie V is ranked 160,467^th in the world and 22^nd in Rejected Cards for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.1 law-abiding acts per hour.