The State of MacDougall is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 21.526 billion MacDougallians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The minute, moralistic, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The powerhouse MacDougallian economy, worth a remarkable 1,103 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 51,243 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 175,806 per year while the poor average 10,962, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

Newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, MacDougall is building an army to protect its overseas territories, military spending is on the increase, and CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. MacDougall's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

MacDougall is ranked 30,068^th in the world and 1^st in Yaren for Most Primitive, scoring 71.06 on the Scary Big Number Scale.