The Empire of Margala is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 524 million Margalais are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yamaranyapura. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Margalan economy, worth 49.9 trillion Gildas a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,293 Gildas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBM Governor goes house hunting, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, Margala successfully hosted the Hell Olympics, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Margala's national animal is the Bone Sarpa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Margala is ranked 29,824^th in the world and 21^st in Hell for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,402.5 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.