The Republic of MarineBR8 is a titanic, cultured nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, strictly enforced bedtime, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 17.528 billion Marines are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.5%.

The frighteningly efficient MarineBR8ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,610 trillion currency units a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 206,003 currency units, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign nationals who stumble near MarineBR8 are harbingers of war, bin lorries have replaced birds as the source of the dawn chorus, takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears, and they say that one should speak softly and carry a big broomstick. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. MarineBR8's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

MarineBR8 is ranked 23,164^th in the world and 1^st in 1000 Islands for Largest Populations, with 17.5 billion capita.