The Democratic empire of Marand Regie is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Manny with an even hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 1.588 billion Marand Regieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marand Regiean city. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marand Regiean economy, worth 247 trillion coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 156,095 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and military instructors tire of being asked for another bedtime story by seven-year-old conscripts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marand Regie's national animal is the platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Marand Regie is ranked 291,566^th in the world and 1,044^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.