The Holy Empire of Mardunia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, zero percent divorce rate, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 201 million Mardunians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Mardunian economy, worth 2.50 trillion human skulls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 12,443 human skulls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens who don't recite the Pledge of Mardunia at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list, ghost regiments exist only on paper, constipated-looking politicians are uptight about potty mouths, and spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mardunia's national animal is the sun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mardunia is ranked 254,223^rd in the world and 4,622^nd in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -7.62 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.