The Intermittent Republic of Murab is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Grand Optimist Gorice XIII with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 20.182 billion Murabians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Misery. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Murabian economy, worth a remarkable 6,726 trillion New Groats a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 333,315 New Groats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act, some achieve retirement and some have retirement thrust upon them, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, and mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Murab's national animal is the Ravening Sloth, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Reformed Empirical Syncretism.

Murab is ranked 13,633^rd in the world and 852^nd in Balder for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,398.74 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.