The Guitarist of Mac Death is a mammoth, pleasant nation, notable for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 6.747 billion Mac Deathians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.2%.

The Mac Deathian economy, worth 402 trillion golds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,601 golds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 195,099 per year while the poor average 13,677, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

The government seizes all major gold finds, political candidates who don't release their birth certificates are presumed to have been born in Maxtopia, sick Mac Deathians are hair today and gone tomorrow, and customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mac Death's national animal is the grail, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Mac Death is ranked 137,049^th in the world and 188^th in The Blades for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,211.33 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.