The Kingdom of Machalas is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Bryan Stanley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 1.246 billion Machaleñoes are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Machanda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Machaleño economy, worth 148 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 118,873 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.5 times as much as the poorest.

The streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Machalas's national animal is the Leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cristanlismo.

Machalas is ranked 40,544^th in the world and 1,358^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.