The Republic of McCarthyist is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 988 million McCarthyistians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The very strong McCarthyistian economy, worth 57.1 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 57,754 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 192,226 per year while the poor average 12,930, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. McCarthyist's national animal is the bald eagle, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

McCarthyist is ranked 30,332^nd in the world and 1^st in Soviet States Republic for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,552.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.