The Allied States of Amperalert is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and ban on automobiles. The quiet, industrious population of 453 million Amperalertians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 49.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Amperalertian economy, worth 33.2 trillion Mini Mints a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 73,195 Mini Mints, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, edutainment video games are taking Amperalert's students to the next level, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Poyo, and legend has it Leader's shower singing echoes through the halls of government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amperalert's national animal is the Poyo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Amperalert is ranked 231,782^nd in the world and 20^th in Amperregion for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2.19 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.