The Saratovan States of of Engels-Marxstadt is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Bekzat IV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, soft-spoken computers, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.712 billion Engels-Marxstadtians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marxstadt. The average income tax rate is 47.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Engels-Marxstadtian economy, worth 151 trillion Tenges a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 55,804 Tenges, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers, prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls, drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, and forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Engels-Marxstadt's national animal is the Griffin and its national religion is Christianity.

Engels-Marxstadt is ranked 169,884^th in the world and 248^th in The League for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 56.43 on the Clooney Contribution Index.