The Island Imperium of Markanite is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Mark with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 22.153 billion Markaniteans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bastion. The average income tax rate is 50.7%.

The strong Markanitean economy, worth a remarkable 1,016 trillion Marks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,885 Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

On-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, and male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Markanite's national animal is the White Marked Tree Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Markanite is ranked 166,712^th in the world and 1,121^st in 10000 Islands for Most Avoided, scoring 0.49 on the Kardashian Reflex Score.