The Republic of Achlos is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 5.448 billion Achlosians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lake City. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Achlosian economy, worth 685 trillion Achlosian Coppers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,893 Achlosian Coppers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt, small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, and most citizens in Achlos are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Achlos's national animal is the Haast Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is None.

Achlos is ranked 275,071^st in the world and 277^th in Conch Kingdom for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -10 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.