The Democratic States of Machiburbia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 420 million Machiburbians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kickflip Kapital. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Machiburbian economy, worth 27.5 trillion Bumbleflowers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 65,361 Bumbleflowers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, and cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Machiburbia's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Machiburbia is ranked 213,171^st in the world and 67^th in Ridgefield for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 547.12 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.