The Free Land of Pete MacHale is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.96 billion Pete MacHaleans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.7%.

The very strong Pete MacHalean economy, worth 211 trillion Glitters a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 53,514 Glitters, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 184,303 per year while the poor average 11,381, a ratio of 16.2 to 1.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, and the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance. Crime is moderate. Pete MacHale's national animal is the Pink Unicorn.

Pete MacHale is ranked 245,230^th in the world and 3^rd in queer for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 112.94 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.