The Tribe of Marasaw is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Chief Akecheta with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 14.408 billion Red Men are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Village Cahokia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.5%.

The very strong Red economy, worth 916 trillion Scalps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Retail. Average income is 63,593 Scalps, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 191,065 per year while the poor average 16,522, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, and orientation videos remind rookie female politicians that slaps on the bottom are perfectly acceptable forms of communication. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marasaw's national animal is the Buffalo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Wind of Spirit.

Marasaw is ranked 282,182^nd in the world and 49^th in Tarkin for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -105.57 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.