The Most Serene Republic of Margila Islands is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its national health service, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 599 million Margila Islanders are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Amsterdam. The average income tax rate is 62.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Margila Islandian economy, worth 51.3 trillion Guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 85,608 Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Computers have been put in control of the economy to keep computers from controlling the economy, Margila Islands's free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand, citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one, and school children are expected to know the names of all seven hundred native tribes and their cultural practices. Crime is totally unknown. Margila Islands's national animal is the Behemoth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Margila Islands is ranked 24,220^th in the world and 538^th in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 107.8 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.