The Corporate Empire of Machstaat is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Jennifer Jennings with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 13.041 billion Machstaatians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greatropolis. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Machstaatian economy, worth a remarkable 4,967 trillion E-Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 380,913 E-Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies", being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, and any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Machstaat's national animal is the amoeba, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Machstaat is ranked 35,477^th in the world and 1,253^rd in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 13.0 billion capita.