The ㅤㅤㅤㅤ of Small Venezia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Loís Deleuze with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, feral children, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.108 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 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Marabino economy, worth 103 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 93,022 Silver Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Maracaibo and Paraguaipoa to enjoy their national art, when their backs are against the walls Maracuchos look out for gay men, the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying, and authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets. 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 211^th in the world and 8^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring 484.56 on the Scary Big Number Scale.