The City State of Marmiedon is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Marmaduke with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 39.555 billion Marmiedonians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marmietown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Marmiedonian economy, worth an astonishing 15,094 trillion Crypto-donuts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 381,603 Crypto-donuts, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,121,344 per year while the poor average 102,309, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, new religious sects are squashed immediately by the government, old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, and the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Marmiedon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marmiedon's national animal is the great cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Felineism.

Marmiedon is ranked 442^nd in the world and 12^th in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 14,914.53 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.