The Empire of Ateala is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Titus Carlisle with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, vat-grown people, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 22.316 billion Atealans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Diza. The average income tax rate is 63.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Atealan economy, worth a remarkable 5,044 trillion Lire a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 226,058 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, all facts are created equal, civil servants refuse to enforce government regulations for fear of wider economic impact, and schoolchildren have more trading cards than flash cards in their backpacks. Crime is totally unknown. Ateala's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ateala is ranked 11,406^th in the world and 355^th in The North Pacific for Largest Governments, scoring 34.39 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.