The Kianese Empire of McMasterdonia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Queen Mother with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, ubiquitous missile silos, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 13.53 billion McMasterdonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Intelligentsia. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse McMasterdonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,957 trillion Livres a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 144,684 Livres, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

In life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, the government-sponsored autobiography 'A The Queen Mother For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of The Queen Mother's supporters, it turns out that money can buy you happiness, and the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 17,119^th in the world and 900^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 7,441.05 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.