The Kianese Empire of McMasterdonia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Queen Mother with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 14.281 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 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming McMasterdonian economy, worth a remarkable 2,074 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 145,294 Livres, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants, the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming, Maxtopian villagers starve by the time McMasterdonian officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them, and foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade McMasterdonian Moonshine". 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 24,309^th in the world and 1,090^th in The North Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,763.38 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.