The Clothing-Optional Beaches of Makenaland is a colossal, socially progressive nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 8.911 billion Makenalandians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The thriving Makenalandian economy, worth 623 trillion sand dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 69,952 sand dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 252,962 per year while the poor average 13,804, a ratio of 18.3 to 1.

Legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, the army is returning some law and order to the streets, criminals are executed and their property seized, and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime is a serious problem. Makenaland's national animal is the bird of paradise, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Makenaland is ranked 275,406^th in the world and 5^th in Lemuria for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -10.1 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.