The Most Holy Imperium of Marlborostein is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by His Imperial Holiness Paul III with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, aversion to nipples, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.68 billion Marlborosteinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Spirituality, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while Social Policy is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jericho. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Marlborosteinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,607 trillion Luxes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 166,085 Luxes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 473,484 per year while the poor average 46,456, a ratio of 10.2 to 1.

Untold millions of Luxes are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat", imitation is the sincerest form of felony, and the police use sound cannons and mortars to deal with loud parties. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marlborostein's national animal is the River Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Marlborosteinian Imperial Catholicism.

Marlborostein is ranked 13,637^th in the world and 1^st in The Maritimes for Most Primitive, scoring 87.59 on the Scary Big Number Scale.