The Holy Empire of The Alliance of Mack is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.107 billion Macks 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, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Mack economy, worth 176 trillion mackmarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,839 mackmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, extreme hiring regulations mean a job in The Alliance of Mack is often a lifetime appointment, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, and grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Alliance of Mack's national animal is the mackerel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Alliance of Mack is ranked 63,550^th in the world and 1,067^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,051.43 on the Gilded Widget Scale.