The State of Marceaux is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 13.251 billion Marceauxians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 34.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Marceauxian economy, worth 278 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 21,008 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, surveillance cameras are banned, and Marceaux has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marceaux's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marceaux is ranked 132,798^th in the world and 2^nd in Old Spirit for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.47 law-abiding acts per hour.