The ㅤㅤㅤㅤ of Small Venezia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Loís Deleuze with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and feral children. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.086 billion Maracuchos 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maracaibo and Paraguaipoa. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Marabino economy, worth 99.3 trillion Silver Coins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 91,440 Silver Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, blasphemers and government critics often die in very unusual and unlikely accidents, fat-shaming is now public policy, and white privilege is a real thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Small Venezia's national animal is the Monkulonseerü, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catharism.

Small Venezia is ranked 12,453^rd in the world and 542^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 110 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.