The State of Marin Verd is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 46.16 billion Marin Verdians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Marin Verdian economy, worth a remarkable 1,791 trillion betales 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 a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 38,801 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, the Governor has just been declared ruler of Marin Verd in an international press conference, notable individuals are granted land and titles, and abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marin Verd's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marin Verd is ranked 115,445^th in the world and 1^st in Marin Verd for Most Secular, with 17.19 Atheism Rate.