The Democratic Republic of MarcAntonique is a massive, genial nation, ruled by David Vincent Seaton with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.788 billion Marcanians 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, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Arcadia. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong MarcAntoniquean economy, worth 111 trillion Benjamins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,210 Benjamins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, and old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MarcAntonique's national animal is the Black Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Rasta-Jedi-Taoism.

MarcAntonique is ranked 22,522^nd in the world and 57^th in United Kingdom for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,096.23 on the Clooney Contribution Index.