The Mummy knows best of McMasterdonia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Queen Mother with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, strictly enforced bedtime, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 27.96 billion McMasterdonians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Intelligentsia. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient McMasterdonian economy, worth a remarkable 4,233 trillion Livres a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 151,426 Livres, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The atmosphere in McMasterdonian boardrooms is turning more gay, journalists often nap through tedious police press briefings, everyone hates people who encourage hate, and the family of The Queen Mother bite their thumbs at paparazzi intrusions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. McMasterdonia's national animal is the McMasterdonian Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Flemingovianism.

McMasterdonia is ranked 161,073^rd in the world and 2,386^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 346.06 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.