The Armed Republic of Moridine is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Speaker 🚹 with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 2.481 billion Moridians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cyning ✴️. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Moridinean economy, worth 338 trillion Credit ✳️s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 136,352 Credit ✳️s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade Moridinean Moonshine", Moridinean companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, and they say that Moridians made a dessert and called it peace. Crime is totally unknown. Moridine's national animal is the Panther 🅾️, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Voice of The Stars ⚛️.

Moridine is ranked 248,524^th in the world and 12,032^nd in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -66.91 on the Hayek Index.