The Afʀıcᴀɴ Uɳıoɴ of Marli is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Akeem Mansa Musa Marli with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and public floggings. The compassionate, devout population of 15.737 billion Marlians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Timbuktu. The average income tax rate is 80.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marlian economy, worth a remarkable 1,880 trillion Marlian Dinars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,525 Marlian Dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

National park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders, national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first, and coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops. Crime is totally unknown. Marli's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Marli is ranked 137,595^th in the world and 13^th in Zombie Research Institute for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,206.75 on the Hickory Productivity Index.