The MACEDONIAN EMPIRE of Macedonia Forever is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 48.253 billion Macedonia Foreverians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Macedonia Foreverian economy, worth a remarkable 1,132 trillion denars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Soda Sales. Average income is 23,460 denars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Macedonia Forever's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Macedonia Forever is ranked 214,920^th in the world and 1^st in Turkmenistan for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring zero on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.