The Mummy knows best of McMasterdonia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Queen Mother with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, unlimited-speed roads, and conspicuous electricity pylons. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 27.838 billion McMasterdonians 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Intelligentsia. The average income tax rate is 88.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient McMasterdonian economy, worth a remarkable 4,151 trillion Livres 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 Tourism, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 an impressive 149,148 Livres, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pet owners want to know why their animals keep smiling at them, former Flemingovianism holy sites are reconsecrated as teppanyaki restaurants, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, and candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. McMasterdonia's national animal is the McMasterdonian Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Flemingovianism.

McMasterdonia is ranked 5,490^th in the world and 231^st in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 94.23 on the Human Development Index.