The Forgotten Past of Makasta is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.291 billion Makastiantions are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The powerhouse Makastatian economy, worth 126 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,984 Delta Eagles, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 518,090 per year while the poor average 9,834, a ratio of 52.7 to 1.

Urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, when you fly on Air Makasta you win a seat or you die, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, and the booming slave trade is now government-funded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Makasta's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Makasta is ranked 316,996^th in the world and 24^th in Fukuoka for Nicest Citizens, with 0.48 average smiles per day.