The Armed Republic of Murion is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 265 million Murionians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Murionian economy, worth 14.4 trillion Grems a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,407 Grems, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen, most ambassadors from Murion retire only a few years after being appointed, and Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Murion's national animal is the African Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Murion is ranked 274,636^th in the world and 101^st in Africa for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 25.76 on the Bus Surprisal Index.