The 10000 Watts Per Side of Marshall Stacks is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.895 billion Marshall Stacksians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marshall Stacksian economy, worth a remarkable 2,667 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 191,995 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news, the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, and weather reports simply advise Marshall Stacksians to 'look outside'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marshall Stacks's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marshall Stacks is ranked 308,213^th in the world and 10^th in Schopenhauer for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -12.22 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.