The Megalopolis Corporatocracy of Matofali is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Jacob Sweetwater with an iron fist, and remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, aversion to nipples, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.95 billion Matofalians 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 minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tar Rock Arcology 01. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Matofalian economy, worth a remarkable 4,034 trillion Mato Points a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 450,731 Mato Points, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,218,373 per year while the poor average 4,097, a ratio of 1,029 to 1.

It's said that any enemy of democracy is a friend to President Jacob Sweetwater, the national sporting identity is represented by a talking burger and a singing smartphone, corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with, and protestors are soaking piles of Mato Points in blood to make a point about government incomes. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Matofali's national animal is the Rope Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Corporatism.

Matofali is ranked 194,118^th in the world and 7,863^rd in The North Pacific for Most Politically Free, scoring 26 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.