The Empire of Americatain is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Rt Hon Peter Mannion MP with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 12.971 billion Tainians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Londinium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Americatainian economy, worth a remarkable 4,944 trillion Caeruses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 381,219 Caeruses, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,662,168 per year while the poor average 18,839, a ratio of 141 to 1.

Frequent flyers are chiseled into statues, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, the state-controlled media salutes those about to spy, and there's nothing more Americatainian than revanchism. Crime is totally unknown. Americatain's national animal is the Golden Pelican, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Americatain is ranked 285,269^th in the world and 79^th in South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 24.71 on the Bus Surprisal Index.