The Fond Pretence of Christopher Marlowe is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 39.975 billion Christopher Marloweans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canterbury. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The enormous but sluggish Christopher Marlowean economy, worth a remarkable 3,088 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,260 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is a growing belief that mothers love their children more than fathers, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, and foreigners write "made in Christopher Marlowe" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out. Crime is totally unknown. Christopher Marlowe's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Christopher Marlowe is ranked 293,221^st in the world and 21^st in Universal Dream Network for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 618.09 Standard Monetary Units.