The Cognizance of Eomachina is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by false Maria with an iron fist, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, public floggings, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.326 billion Machines are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Metropolis. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The large but sluggish Machinistic economy, worth 971 trillion meals 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 Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 43,522 meals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pro-democracy protesters are shot on sight by state police, the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, and much of Eomachina's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eomachina's national animal is the goldfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Machinism.

Eomachina is ranked 6,500^th in the world and 158^th in the Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 110.28 law-abiding acts per hour.