The Holy Empire of Mardunia is a very large, safe nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 114 million Mardunians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Mardunian economy, worth 1.86 trillion human skulls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 16,358 human skulls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?", sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters, Mardunia's Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region, and a small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mardunia's national animal is the sun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mardunia is ranked 41,558^th in the world and 942^nd in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.14 law-abiding acts per hour.