The United States of Mar Vers is a tiny, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 18 million Mar Versians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.1%.

The thriving Mar Versian economy, worth 1.52 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 84,610 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 268,268 per year while the poor average 20,345, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

Mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas, election debates consists mostly of two grey suits arguing over how to best preserve the status quo, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, and requests for government aid can be forwarded to the beach. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mar Vers's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mar Vers is ranked 139,647^th in the world and 1,124^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,263.21 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.