The Bara Loving Free Land of Marimite is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Yumi Fukuzawa with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, lack of airports, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 33.282 billion Marimiteans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it prioritizes Education, with Environment, Social Policy, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense and Administration aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marimite City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but inefficient Marimitean economy, worth a remarkable 8,155 trillion gokigenyous a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports. Average income is an amazing 245,029 gokigenyous, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Marimitean politicians, the government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association, lavish state dinners in Marimite City are the state's leading budgetary expenditure, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marimite's national animal is the bara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Marimite is ranked 107^th in the world and 1^st in Anime for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 96.43 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.