The Lost Hope of Makasta but is sheading paper is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 5.822 billion Makasta but is sheading paperians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 39.1%.

The thriving Makasta but is sheading paperian economy, worth 407 trillion dollars a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,979 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly, weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, and escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Makasta but is sheading paper's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Makasta but is sheading paper is ranked 111,815^th in the world and 1,105^th in Alliance of Supreme Powers for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.49 law-abiding acts per hour.