The People's Republic of Mactoria is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 803 million Mactorians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kinkinz City. The average income tax rate is 51.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Mactorian economy, worth 21.9 trillion Novas 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, fairly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 27,295 Novas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, Leader is considering changing the Mactorian flag to one with more glitter, and the government hopes austerity will lead to prosperity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mactoria's national animal is the Sea Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Mactoria is ranked 52,147^th in the world and 670^th in the West Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 676.68 pounds of wildlife per square mile.