The Yellow Politician of Ed Markey is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, deadly medical pandemics, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 14.949 billion Bureaucrats are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government is effectively ruled by the Department of Administration, with Industry also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The North Pole. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.6%.

The powerhouse Bureaucratic economy, worth a remarkable 1,222 trillion Greased Palms a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 81,760 Greased Palms, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

The strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Political Appointee, school lockers are filled with fancy underwear, women wear burqas to avoid unwanted male attention, and anti-government web sites are springing up. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ed Markey's national animal is the Political Appointee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ed Markey is ranked 19,919^th in the world and 1^st in TMZ for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 69,823.89 Standard Monetary Units.