The Republic of Marimoland is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by A pair of rather dazzling Shoelaces with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.885 billion Marimolandi are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plantropolis. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Marimolandish economy, worth a remarkable 2,062 trillion hugs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 148,505 hugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tipsy fans frequently invite themselves to the board meetings of sports clubs, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and representatives soak in mineral pools at the new capitol building day spa. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marimoland's national animal is the tardigrade, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marimoland is ranked 256,974^th in the world and 13,593^rd in Lazarus for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.38 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.