The Federated Kingdom of Margaux is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by King Mark Serene Grumps with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.475 billion Margauxians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Triablo. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Margauxian economy, worth a remarkable 4,093 trillion Marguins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 432,058 Marguins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Margauxians any less frightened, and the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Margaux's national animal is the Emperial Thoroughbred, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is None.

Margaux is ranked 307,048^th in the world and 387^th in 10000 Islands for Most Cultured, scoring 30 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.