The Machine of Pookyvania is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Machine with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, infamous sell-swords, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 20.801 billion Machines hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Machine. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Mechanical economy, worth a remarkable 6,854 trillion machines a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 329,534 machines, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Machine claims tax rises are the result of 'curses', the fastest growing demographic of porn viewership is twelve to seventeen, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", and the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Pookyvania's national animal is the machine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Machine.

Pookyvania is ranked 53,791^st in the world and 131^st in Forest for Most Developed, scoring 76.62 on the Human Development Index.