The Republic of Maphia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, frequent executions, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.768 billion Maphians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Maphian economy, worth a remarkable 2,526 trillion currencies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 325,303 currencies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,042,456 per year while the poor average 2,983, a ratio of 1,019 to 1.

Rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row, the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Maphian Navy, new urban roads are threatening city parks, and sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Maphia's national animal is the animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Maphia is ranked 247,329^th in the world and 26^th in Vickenian experiment incubator for Most Primitive, scoring -110.17 on the Scary Big Number Scale.