The Holy Empire of Marcarius Halohin is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 8.513 billion Marcarius Halohinians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Marcarius Halohinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,649 trillion Gold Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 193,705 Gold Marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 862,011 per year while the poor average 27,090, a ratio of 31.8 to 1.

Conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, and news headlines suggest that Leader has a sideline in guinea pig pimping. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marcarius Halohin's national animal is the Winged Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Marcarius Halohin is ranked 23,323^rd in the world and 3^rd in Edlhus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 52.91 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.