The Dominion of John Mark is a titanic, cultured nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, otherworldly petting zoo, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 11.811 billion John Markians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Paul. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.5%.

The frighteningly efficient John Markian economy, worth a remarkable 2,527 trillion Good Deeds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 213,999 Good Deeds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 655,719 per year while the poor average 54,061, a ratio of 12.1 to 1.

Children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, artists can sign away their music on luxury paper with freshly-squeezed squid ink, cultural heritage is measured in Scoville Heat Units, and today's secret ingredients are blood, sweat, and tears. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. John Mark's national animal is the Winged Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

John Mark is ranked 192,544^th in the world and 31^st in Catholic for Largest Black Market, with 551 billion Standard Monetary Units.