The Most Serene Republic of Marigolds is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its closed borders, compulsory vegetarianism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.532 billion Marigolds 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 58.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Marigolden economy, worth 65.0 trillion Pansies 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 black market in Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Tourism. 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 18,402 Pansies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal, gun ownership is compulsory, and expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marigolds's national animal is the Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Marigolds is ranked 219,919^th in the world and 9^th in Meihua for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.66 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.