The Theocratic Matriarchy of Holy Marsh is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Arsi'Elkon Luboski with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, soft-spoken computers, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 37.245 billion Mar'si are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Industry and Education also on the agenda, while Environment isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mar'si Sahira. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Mar'si economy, worth an astonishing 17,107 trillion Marshians a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 459,331 Marshians, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vacationing Mar'si expect to be treated as royalty, chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion, former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones, and foreign nationals who stumble near Holy Marsh are harbingers of war. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Holy Marsh's national animal is the Sparky, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Marshism.

Holy Marsh is ranked 154^th in the world and 3^rd in Greater Dienstad for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 160,864.61 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.