The Nationalist Technocracy of Lionsmarchk is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Triumvirate with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, flagrant waste-dumping, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 27.011 billion Marchkans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lionsgate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Marchkan economy, worth a remarkable 9,140 trillion Aurics a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 338,380 Aurics, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,899,133 per year while the poor average 29,853, a ratio of 63.6 to 1.

Every workday begins with group therapy, it's often raining men (hallelujah) in Lionsgate, angry men scowl at each other across chess boards, and The Triumvirate knows that some internet activities are strictly solitary (Lionsmarchk has found 6 easter eggs). Crime is almost non-existent. Lionsmarchk's national animal is the Auric Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The State Cult.

Lionsmarchk is ranked 17,120^th in the world and 17^th in KAISERREICH for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.38 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.