The Free Land of Mac-1 is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, daily referendums, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 21.025 billion Mac-1ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 47.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mac-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,179 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,115 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children, and programmers often reinvent the wheel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mac-1's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth.

Mac-1 is ranked 259,696^th in the world and 1^st in Macaronesia for Highest Food Quality, scoring 9.16 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.