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The Democratic States of Machiburbia is a very large, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 190 million Machiburbians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Machiburbian economy, worth 10.4 trillion Bumbleflowers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 54,807 Bumbleflowers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, and prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present. 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 271,245^th in the world and 85^th in Ridgefield for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -6 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.