The Catholic Kingdom of Italian Markland is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Mark I with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, avowedly heterosexual populace, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.086 billion Italian Markish 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — prioritizes Defense, with Education, Spirituality, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toronto. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Italian Markish economy, worth a remarkable 2,085 trillion Markish Pound and the Euros a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 129,677 Markish Pound and the Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist, war vets look after war animals, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, and the nation's iron imports are booming. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Italian Markland's national animal is the Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Italian Markland is ranked 12,010^th in the world and 1^st in Kingdom of Anglo Markland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.8 law-abiding acts per hour.