The Commonwealth of Amazon Shipping is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 785 million Amazon Shippers enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seattle. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The strong Amazon Shipper economy, worth 51.2 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 65,243 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 423,252 per year while the poor average 4,016, a ratio of 105 to 1.

Attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers, requests for government aid can be forwarded to the beach, and religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Amazon Shipping's national animal is the Peccy, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Amazon Shipping is ranked 280,208^th in the world and 6^th in Shadowport for Largest Governments, scoring 5.74 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.