The United States of Amerkya is a small, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 36 million Amerkyans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with International Aid and Spirituality not funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.7%.

The very strong Amerkyan economy, worth 1.71 trillion Sovereigns a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 47,599 Sovereigns, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 190,032 per year while the poor average 8,017, a ratio of 23.7 to 1.

In its new More is More campaign the government advertises obese men and women posing coquettishly with baked goods to spare their blushes, rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row, it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, and pedants defending Leader observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Amerkya's national animal is the Phona Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Amerkya is ranked 272,084^th in the world and 3^rd in United Nations Regional Alliance for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 38.06 on the Kitten Softness Rating.