The Diplomatic Courier of Marjorie Baldwin is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 33.837 billion Artificial People are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The all-consuming an Artificial Person economy, worth a remarkable 3,379 trillion 999 Gold Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 99,887 999 Gold Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 319,354 per year while the poor average 23,729, a ratio of 13.5 to 1.

The government has returned all business to private ownership, billions of 999 Gold Credits are being blown on orbital weapons development, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, and urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffer-driven limousines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Marjorie Baldwin's national animal is the Artificial Person, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Marjorie Baldwin is ranked 153,611^th in the world and 2^nd in Clindea for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.73 law-abiding acts per hour.