The State of Morkel is a titanic, orderly nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 22.057 billion Morkelians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Morkelian economy, worth 89.3 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 4,046 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, voting is compulsory, and Morkel has designated Westminster as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Morkel's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Morkel is ranked 193,242^nd in the world and 1^st in Republic of Romania for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 15.81 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.