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The State of Machine Rules is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 31.454 billion Machine Rulers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 49.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Machine Rulesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,205 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,329 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Abortions are routinely performed in Machine Rules's hospitals, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and Machine Rules has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Machine Rules's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Machine Rules is ranked 122,438^th in the world and 1^st in Federation of States for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.