The Commonwealth of Mazukrowistan is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical population of 223 million Mazukrowis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 50.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mazukrowistani economy, worth 9.83 trillion Mazukrowi Rubles 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 44,058 Mazukrowi Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

International collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Mazukrowistan, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, and Leader can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mazukrowistan's national animal is the Eurasian Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mazukrowistan is ranked 284,098^th in the world and 1,523^rd in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -8.85 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.