The Free Market Nightmare of Actian is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by the guy who runs actian with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, flagrant waste-dumping, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.501 billion Actianis are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arkmond. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Actianian economy, worth a remarkable 1,104 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 245,300 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,233,527 per year while the poor average 3,040, a ratio of 734 to 1.

The guy who runs actian consults the market before choosing breakfast, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, male tourists tend to be fearful of Actian's deadly femme fatales, and barges of dissidents are being "reeducated through water therapy" in the South Alligator Sea. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Actian's national animal is the alligator, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Actian is ranked 1,487^th in the world and 1^st in Ensio for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 55 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.