The Socialist State of Markadan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Markagrad Soviet with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.829 billion Markadani love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Markagrad. The average income tax rate is 91.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Markadani economy, worth 499 trillion Florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Book Publishing. Average income is 85,724 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Markagrad Soviet has been nicknamed 'Robomop', the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, and citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Markadan's national animal is the termite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Markadan is ranked 9,356^th in the world and 190^th in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 102.29 law-abiding acts per hour.