The Democratic Republic of Mavern is a tiny, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 7 million Mavernians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.4%.

The thriving Mavernian economy, worth 458 billion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 65,468 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 231,736 per year while the poor average 13,354, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mavern's national animal is the dolphin, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Mavern is ranked 213,428^th in the world and 547^th in Horizon for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -4 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.