The Kingdom of Marimaia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Lisandro Felipe with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, rampant corporate plagiarism, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 37.955 billion Marimaians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madrid. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Marimaian economy, worth an astonishing 10,929 trillion escudoes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 287,959 escudoes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,337,811 per year while the poor average 37,248, a ratio of 35.9 to 1.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, in a fit of passion King Lisandro Felipe has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Marimaia's national animal is the Marimaian Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholic Church of Marimaia.

Marimaia is ranked 281,572^nd in the world and 11^th in A Modern World for Safest, scoring 4.69 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.