The Community of Machesko is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.401 billion Macheskoans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.4%.

The powerhouse Macheskoan economy, worth 430 trillion Cocos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is 67,255 Cocos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 204,053 per year while the poor average 17,232, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

The arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place, exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies", authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, and ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Machesko's national animal is the Blue whale.

Machesko is ranked 240,001^st in the world and 2^nd in Meguca for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.