The Most Serene Republic of Martor is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 227 million Martorians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 65.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Martorian economy, worth 13.0 trillion Aurums a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,270 Aurums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, the death penalty has been reintroduced, all you have to do is pray to get into Martor, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Martor's national animal is the Tessa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Martor is ranked 191,875^th in the world and 156^th in Karma for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring zero on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.