The Dauphinate of Murden is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Dauphin Theodore I with a fair hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, sprawling nuclear power plants, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.284 billion Murdenites hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandros. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Murdenian economy, worth a remarkable 3,908 trillion drachmas 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 amazing 294,190 drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, children are raised bilingual from an early age, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', and children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Murden's national animal is the common dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Greco-Egyptian Syncretism.

Murden is ranked 148,067^th in the world and 445^th in Europeia for Most Stationary, with 66.74917255828 days.