The Grotesque Playground of Mackintosh is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Magnificent Bastard with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, unlimited-speed roads, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 37.778 billion Mackintoshians 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 minute, corrupt, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Law & Order, and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Wasteland. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Mackintoshian economy, worth an astonishing 28,976 trillion managerial prerogatives a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 767,014 managerial prerogatives, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,943,473 per year while the poor average 48,081, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off, conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors, homophobia is off the menu, and the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mackintosh's national animal is the worker, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

Mackintosh is ranked 55^th in the world and 8^th in Wysteria for Fattest Citizens, with 99.13 Obesity Rate.