The Republic of Moridius is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 596 million Moridusians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 42.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Moridiusian economy, worth 38.3 trillion euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 64,324 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Moridius City. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Moridius's national animal is the swordfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Moridius is ranked 122,740^th in the world and 1,028^th in the Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 58.03 on the Human Development Index.