The Matriarchy of Amaranthian is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its daily referendums, prohibition of alcohol, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 640 million Amaranthianians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 59.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Amaranthianian economy, worth 18.8 trillion lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 29,446 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, the official Amaranthianian Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, and prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amaranthian's national animal is the whale shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Amaranthian is ranked 140,068^th in the world and 290^th in Horizon for Most Developed, scoring 56.42 on the Human Development Index.