The United States of MAX33 is a small, genial nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working population of 36 million MAX33ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 46.0%.

The very strong MAX33ian economy, worth 2.21 trillion USDS a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 61,307 USDS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

The easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, modesty is treated with the side-eye, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and athletic teenagers are among the wealthiest members of society. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MAX33's national animal is the human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

MAX33 is ranked 267,078^th in the world and 5^th in kello for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 24.1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.