The Colony of Machiavelle is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.521 billion Machiavelleans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The thriving Machiavellean economy, worth 97.8 trillion aurums a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 64,326 aurums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 227,694 per year while the poor average 13,121, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is a problem. Machiavelle's national animal is the bovina, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Machiavelle is ranked 169,703^rd in the world and 8^th in Montreal for Most Primitive, scoring -64.81 on the Scary Big Number Scale.