The Federation of Marimaia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Feliks Korynenko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 43.158 billion Marimaians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Veligrad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Marimaian economy, worth an astonishing 12,427 trillion Marimaian rubles a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 287,959 Marimaian rubles, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,337,811 per year while the poor average 37,248, a ratio of 35.9 to 1.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, in a fit of passion President Feliks Korynenko has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Marimaia's national animal is the Marimaian Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Marimaian Orthodox Church.

Marimaia is ranked 89,075^th in the world and 3^rd in A Modern World for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,536.6 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.