The People's Republic of Mariklavos is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, keen interest in outer space, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 750 million Mariklavishes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Krim. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Mariklavosian economy, worth 54.4 trillion Klonas 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 72,538 Klonas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Major internet servers have acquired citizenship, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, and the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mariklavos's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mariklavos is ranked 9,547^th in the world and 395^th in The Communist Bloc for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,868.47 on the Clooney Contribution Index.