The People's Republic of Marivete is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.777 billion Mariveter 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maurete. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Mariveter economy, worth 81.0 trillion Marivete shekels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. Average income is 16,958 Marivete shekels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, organ donation is compulsory, the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Mariveter any less frightened, and Marivete has designated Maurete as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marivete's national animal is the maurete, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marivete is ranked 144,358^th in the world and 32^nd in Corvinia Refounded for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 76.16 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.