The The Gallant Noble of Maristano is a massive, safe nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and public floggings. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.714 billion Maristanos are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 10.6%.

The all-consuming Maristan economy, worth 147 trillion Mars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 85,919 Mars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Government contracted tax collectors often 'accidentally' over-charge citizens and skim the surplus, code enforcement officers circle wealthy Maristanos like vultures, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, and the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Maristano's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Maristano is ranked 56,875^th in the world and 7^th in Regio for Nicest Citizens, with 17.01 average smiles per day.