The Republic of Blackmarche is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.425 billion Blackmarcheans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, with Defense, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Blackmarchean economy, worth a remarkable 2,913 trillion currencies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 453,535 currencies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,110,269 per year while the poor average 5,880, a ratio of 698 to 1.

The strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by an animal, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, and online tourism reviews of Blackmarche are suspiciously positive and amazingly similar. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Blackmarche's national animal is the animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Blackmarche is ranked 140^th in the world and 12^th in Vickenian experiment incubator for Most Armed, with 66.62 weapons per person.