The United Socialist States of Marxlings is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 668 million Marxites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Engelia. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Marxlingsian economy, worth 25.7 trillion credits 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is 38,441 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids these days know how to throw a proper punch, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marxlings's national animal is the flamingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marxlings is ranked 188,858^th in the world and 364^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 143.96 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.