The Republic of Maracanau is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mendonza with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.163 billion Maracanauans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pindoretama. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Maracanauan economy, worth 94.0 trillion bitcoins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,860 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maracanau's national animal is the Arara-Azul, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maracanau is ranked 9,386^th in the world and 85^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 5,950.22 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.