The City State of Marmiedon is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Marmaduke with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ban on automobiles, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 39.515 billion Marmiedonians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marmietown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Marmiedonian economy, worth an astonishing 15,088 trillion Crypto-donuts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 381,851 Crypto-donuts, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,113,919 per year while the poor average 103,431, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, billions of Crypto-donuts are spent to take high-quality photos of the Great Cat Nebula, and pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marmiedon's national animal is the great cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Felineism.

Marmiedon is ranked 291,993^rd in the world and 6,365^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.15 average smiles per day.