The Empire of Margala is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 456 million Margalais 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yamaranyapura. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Margalan economy, worth 41.4 trillion Gildas a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,800 Gildas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

A little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, nine-year-olds' chat logs are scoured for evidence of radicalization, and throwing garbage out of your house's front window makes it legally someone else's problem. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Margala's national animal is the Bone Sarpa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Margala is ranked 27,948^th in the world and 19^th in Hell for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.05 law-abiding acts per hour.