The Federal Republic of Macedale is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Myla with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.211 billion Macedaleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurora. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Macedalean economy, worth 252 trillion paxis a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 35,022 paxis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Macedale, the nation's ambassadors often conduct their business in jail cells, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Macedale's national animal is the red fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Macedale is ranked 28,747^th in the world and 3^rd in The Transgender Region for Lowest Crime Rates, with 83.48 law-abiding acts per hour.