The Corporate Federation of Maritzal is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by President Cornelius Crewes with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, lack of airports, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 16.424 billion Maritzalians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meridian. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Maritzalian economy, worth a remarkable 9,319 trillion Pistas a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 567,445 Pistas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, to 'cut off family ties' is no longer just a phrase, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, and foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade Maritzalian Moonshine". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maritzal's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maritzal is ranked 286,747^th in the world and 1,372^nd in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -16.31 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.