The Ding an sich of The Marsupial Illuminati is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Eye of Providence with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 16.698 billion Marsupials enjoy frequent elections, which are uniformly corrupted by big-spending corporations buying politicians who best suit their interests.

The enormous, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marsupium. The average income tax rate is 70.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Marsupial economy, worth a remarkable 1,692 trillion Pouches a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 101,340 Pouches, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

A commonwealth of equal nations recognises that The Marsupial Illuminati is a bit more equal than the others, the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon", many believe that the only good Marsupial is a dead Marsupial, and grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices. Crime is pervasive. The Marsupial Illuminati's national animal is the Marsupial, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Pouchism.

The Marsupial Illuminati is ranked 292,229^th in the world and 97^th in Blue Ridge for Lowest Crime Rates, with 9.03 law-abiding acts per hour.