The Free Land of Amethea is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 493 million Ametheans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Amethean economy, worth 19.0 trillion Shards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 38,547 Shards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gift hampers filled with delicious beef jerky are sent to newly communist nations, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, and the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amethea's national animal is the Raven.

Amethea is ranked 116,667^th in the world and 418^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,852.95 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.