The Archipelago 🌊 of Marinho Islands is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Melanie Costa with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.376 billion Marinos hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cidade de Marinho. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Marino economy, worth 561 trillion Marino reais a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 166,284 Marino reais, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of Marino reais are spent to take high-quality photos of the Maned Sloth Nebula, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Marinho Islands's national animal is the Maned sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Marinho Islands is ranked 244,756^th in the world and 7,969^th in the South Pacific for Most Armed, with 0.11 Weapons Per Person.