The Allied States of Mar Teret is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Vershack with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.454 billion Mar Teretians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Teretia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Mar Teretian economy, worth 477 trillion feirs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 194,628 feirs, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Paraplegics are told to walk it off, the flight attendant who draws the short straw is on "cockpit bucket duty", anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead, and genetic research is facing major headwinds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mar Teret's national animal is the lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Mar Teret is ranked 242,065^th in the world and 1,556^th in the Plains of Perdition for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -4.12 on the Hayek Index.