The Eternal Murmuration of Pain Suffering and Despair is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by REDACTED with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.169 billion Marthains are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Punishment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.9%.

The frighteningly efficient in states of Pain Suffering and Despair economy, worth 563 trillion lost souls a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Gambling, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 135,118 lost souls, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 621,977 per year while the poor average 17,776, a ratio of 35.0 to 1.

It is illegal to carry an umbrella when the official weather forecast predicts a sunny day, children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, and customs officers pretend not to hear shouts of "HELP LET ME OUT!" emerging from diplomatic bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Pain Suffering and Despair's national animal is the passenger pigeon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Martha.

Pain Suffering and Despair is ranked 37,472^nd in the world and 3^rd in Socialist American Necron Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,640.6 on the Gilded Widget Scale.