The Intermittent Republic of Murab is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Grand Optimist Gorice XIII with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.664 billion Murabians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Misery. The average income tax rate is 39.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Murabian economy, worth a remarkable 6,776 trillion New Groats a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 344,614 New Groats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb, populations of two-headed Ravening Sloths have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, the ruling party has a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks, and from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Murab. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Murab's national animal is the Ravening Sloth, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Reformed Empirical Syncretism.

Murab is ranked 168^th in the world and 3^rd in Balder for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 150,103.79 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.