The Republic of Machon is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 12.448 billion Machos are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Los Machos. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The very strong Macho economy, worth 794 trillion Derus a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 63,791 Derus, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 224,612 per year while the poor average 13,117, a ratio of 17.1 to 1.

The New Macho Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms, Leader has just been declared ruler of Machon in an international press conference, Machon has designated Los Machos as its capital city, and a major religion has been named as Machon's national religion. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Machon's national animal is the sloth, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Machon is ranked 179,665^th in the world and 112^th in The Eighth Closet for Most Developed, scoring 54.08 on the Human Development Index.