The ㅤㅤㅤㅤ of Small Venezia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Loís Deleuze with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.064 billion Maracuchos are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maracaibo and Paraguaipoa. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Marabino economy, worth 95.6 trillion Silver Coins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 89,823 Silver Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously", masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery, and the practice of capital punishment proves divisive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Small Venezia's national animal is the Monkulonseerü, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catharism.

Small Venezia is ranked 264,417^th in the world and 5,875^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.79 average smiles per day.