The 10000 Watts Per Side of Marshall Stacks is a titanic, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.949 billion Marshall Stacksians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 87.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marshall Stacksian economy, worth a remarkable 2,692 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 193,029 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The free market's hand is quite visible, internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be, most Marshall Stacksian video games are banned in other countries, and the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marshall Stacks's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Marshall Stacks is ranked 83,180^th in the world and 7^th in Schopenhauer for Highest Drug Use, scoring 210.02 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.