The MACEDONIAN EMPIRE of MKD is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 48.894 billion MKDians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient MKDian economy, worth a remarkable 1,373 trillion denars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 28,088 denars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MKD's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

MKD is ranked 247,552^nd in the world and 1^st in fyrom for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 27.39 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.