The United Socialist States of Mechanico is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, disturbing lack of elderly people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 975 million Mechanicoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 47.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mechanicoan economy, worth 43.3 trillion diodes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,445 diodes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prematurely retired barristers twitch in anxiety when they talk about their courtroom experiences, telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm, billions of diodes are being poured into a space program, and meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mechanico's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mechanico is ranked 38,214^th in the world and 1,424^th in The East Pacific for Most Secular, with 31.45 Atheism Rate.