The ㅤㅤㅤㅤ of Small Venezia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Loís Deleuze with an iron fist, and notable for its lack of airports, public floggings, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.213 billion Maracuchos 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maracaibo and Paraguaipoa. The average income tax rate is 89.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marabino economy, worth 121 trillion Silver Coins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 100,373 Silver Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is widely believed that the first citizen of Small Venezia was called 'Wild-eyed Daddy-O', speech bubbles are the soul of wit, every school is receiving a brand new eraser, and the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Small Venezia's national animal is the Monkulonseerü, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catharism.

Small Venezia is ranked 286,175^th in the world and 6,306^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -450.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.