The Corporate Federation of Maritzal is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Cornelius Crewes with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 12.167 billion Maritzalians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meridian. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Maritzalian economy, worth a remarkable 6,270 trillion Pistas a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 515,383 Pistas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, robosexual marriages are increasingly common, and posing for pictures is an integral part of military training. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maritzal's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maritzal is ranked 203,506^th in the world and 798^th in Europe for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.92 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.