The People's Kingdom of Marvingia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by King Ernst Ludwig II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.201 billion Marvingi are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strasbourg. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Marvingian economy, worth 234 trillion Marvingian Guldens 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 dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 106,501 Marvingian Guldens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Astronauts take one small step for Marvingia and one giant step backward from confrontation, freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, and the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Red Deer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marvingia's national animal is the Red Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Marvingia is ranked 257,573^rd in the world and 951^st in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.49 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.