The Voyage of Mary Celeste is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its burgeoning horse population. The hard-working, cynical population of 2.803 billion Mary Celesteans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.8%.

The very strong Mary Celestean economy, worth 148 trillion deniers a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 53,075 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 162,136 per year while the poor average 13,467, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Mary Celeste's national animal is the horse.

Mary Celeste is ranked 247,167^th in the world and 3^rd in Seahaven Island for Lowest Crime Rates, with 52.89 law-abiding acts per hour.