The Serene Kingdom of Marlo is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by King Archonovich with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, public floggings, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 14.078 billion Marloans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Okpueze. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Marloan economy, worth a remarkable 2,770 trillion Marks a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 196,780 Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Hot dogs have been renamed lukewarm pigs, art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs, and in the mighty jungle the lion once again sleeps tonight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marlo's national animal is the Bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Marlo is ranked 16,289^th in the world and 8^th in Hartfelden for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 35,253.05 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.