The Corporate Empire of Machstaat is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Jennifer Jennings with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.729 billion Machstaatians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greatropolis. The average income tax rate is 66.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Machstaatian economy, worth a remarkable 6,486 trillion E-Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 387,717 E-Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Preschoolers outnumber veteran politicians in government, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, robosexual marriages are increasingly common, and children and steel are ubiquitous features of the nethermost depths of Machstaat. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Machstaat's national animal is the amoeba, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Machstaat is ranked 88,469^th in the world and 4,719^th in Lazarus for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,323.34 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.