The Republic of Akoro is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 359 million Akoroans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.6%.

The very strong Akoroan economy, worth 23.1 trillion Akoran Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 64,347 Akoran Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 212,190 per year while the poor average 14,606, a ratio of 14.5 to 1.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, and government officials are held to the highest standard of morality. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Akoro's national animal is the Akoran Egret.

Akoro is ranked 148,682^nd in the world and 6,103^rd in Balder for Safest, scoring 60.6 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.