The Dictatorship of Marmick is a fledgling, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5 million Marmickers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 53.6%.

The Marmickian economy, worth 214 billion Marks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 42,810 Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation is compulsory, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and bicyclists are banned from major roads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marmick's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marmick is ranked 288,360^th in the world and 650^th in Saint Osmund for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.12 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.