The United Socialist States of Marucian is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 609 million Marucianians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mite. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Marucianian economy, worth 6.25 trillion keroes 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 10,262 keroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, the government funds large training centres to turn penguims into functioning members of society, fraternities are rejoicing at government-subsidized partying, and glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marucian's national animal is the penguim, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marucian is ranked 311,894^th in the world and 621^st in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 47.76 on the Human Development Index.