The Allied States of Ampersample is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, enslaved workforce, and otherworldly petting zoo. The cynical population of 602 million Ampersampleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.0%.

The very strong Ampersamplean economy, worth 39.4 trillion Mini Mints a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,429 Mini Mints, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 211,120 per year while the poor average 15,335, a ratio of 13.8 to 1.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, the government is hounded to provide tissues whenever the feelings of the Dàguó people are hurt, traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, and fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ampersample's national animal is the Poyo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ampersample is ranked 274,422^nd in the world and 29^th in Amperregion for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 22.67 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.