The Empire of Aperture Empire is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 560 million Humans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aperture City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.6%.

The Aperture Empirean economy, worth 36.3 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 64,807 Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

The diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, Humans believe the only thing that will make you happy is being unhappy with who you are, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied GLaDOS. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aperture Empire's national animal is the GLaDOS, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aperture Empire is ranked 85,064^th in the world and 1,954^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,454.01 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.