The Constitutional Monarchy of Murak is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Asaph Avelar with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.003 billion Murakians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of São Paulo. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Murakian economy, worth 239 trillion muras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,793 muras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, and schoolchildren are taught to boo and hiss at Asaph Avelar's name. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Murak's national animal is the gato, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cristianismo Asaphiânico Reformado.

Murak is ranked 75,587^th in the world and 1,673^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 102.74 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.