The ㅤㅤㅤㅤ of Small Venezia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Loís Deleuze with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, triple-decker prams, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.158 billion Maracuchos are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maracaibo and Paraguaipoa. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Marabino economy, worth 115 trillion Silver Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 99,673 Silver Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most people think algebra is something a mermaid wears, the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish, piracy is the nation's most popular pastime, and the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Small Venezia's national animal is the Monkulonseerü, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catharism.

Small Venezia is ranked 19,971^st in the world and 886^th in The North Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 117.18 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.