The MACEDONIAN EMPIRE of Makedoniae is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 48.773 billion Makedoniaeans 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, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Makedoniaean economy, worth 855 trillion staters a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 17,548 staters, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no 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. Makedoniae's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Makedoniae is ranked 194,265^th in the world and 1^st in Jordan for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring zero on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.