The United Socialist States of Marxlings is a huge, genial nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 543 million Marxites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Engelia. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Marxlingsian economy, worth 20.6 trillion credits 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is 37,848 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments, and claiming that "my cousin said it was legal" is a common courtroom defense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marxlings's national animal is the flamingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marxlings is ranked 54,962^nd in the world and 383^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.