The Commonwealth of Ament Brist is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed population of 3.892 billion Ament Bristians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 43.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Ament Bristian economy, worth 170 trillion Dollars a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,810 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Cobra, gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and citizens must pay to enjoy Ament Brist's pristine beaches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ament Brist's national animal is the Cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ament Brist is ranked 130,028^th in the world and 5,075^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 17.96 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.