The Tie-Dye Republic of Mars Hotel is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Robert Hunter with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.09 billion Mars Hotelians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cucamonga. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Mars Hotelian economy, worth a remarkable 1,876 trillion Garcias 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 amazing 264,717 Garcias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Mars Hotel Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel, and reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mars Hotel's national animal is the saw-whet owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Mars Hotel is ranked 289,614^th in the world and 292^nd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -24.25 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.