The Petite Empire of Marusha is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The chaebol administration with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.176 billion Marushians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marusha City. The average income tax rate is 11.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Marushian economy, worth 232 trillion Marci Pesos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 106,927 Marci Pesos, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from The chaebol administration's throne, "The chaebol administration got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, the government seizes all major gold finds, and the only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Marusha's national animal is the Cockatiel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Forkism.

Marusha is ranked 35,859^th in the world and 824^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 193.48 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.