The United Socialist States of Masarchta is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 239 million Masarchtans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 61.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Masarchtan economy, worth 10.9 trillion Tickets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 45,713 Tickets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, everybody's got wood thanks to Leader, and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Masarchta's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Masarchta is ranked 73,399^th in the world and 1,538^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,945.09 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.