The Dictatorship of Factorium Machinarius is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Overseer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.755 billion Factorium Machinariusians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Factorium Centralia. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Factorium Machinariusian economy, worth 316 trillion cogs 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 impressive 114,769 cogs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left, citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, and at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Factorium Machinarius's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Factorium Machinarius is ranked 270,941^st in the world and 179^th in Confederation of Corrupt Dictators for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 38.17 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.