The Holy Empire of Marcarius Halohin is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 8.417 billion Marcarius Halohinians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Marcarius Halohinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,613 trillion Gold Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 191,735 Gold Marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 847,607 per year while the poor average 27,133, a ratio of 31.2 to 1.

Only the richest get to see out of their windows, self-driving cars obey the road rules even during emergencies, the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people, and childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marcarius Halohin's national animal is the Winged Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Marcarius Halohin is ranked 277,507^th in the world and 9^th in Edlhus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.49 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.