The District of Amsterdam is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 24.243 billion Amsterdamians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 54.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Amsterdamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,685 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,531 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, all-natural foods are becoming a major fad, and Amsterdam has designated District City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amsterdam's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Amsterdam is ranked 230,428^th in the world and 7^th in The Hague for Most Beautiful Environments, with 404.24 pounds of wildlife per square mile.