The United States of Maclardable is a large, cultured nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 103 million Maclardableans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 9.4%.

The strong Maclardablean economy, worth 6.38 trillion florins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 61,901 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks, banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse, and famous artwork is regularly confiscated for plagiarism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Maclardable's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Maclardable is ranked 85,160^th in the world and 1^st in Modernized Nations for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,565.92 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.