The United States of Athens-GA- is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 3.641 billion Athens-GA-ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Athens-GA-ian economy, worth 530 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 145,810 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Athens-GA-'s national animal is the bald eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Athens-GA- is ranked 17,251^st in the world and 34^th in Aerospace for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,693.35 on the Gilded Widget Scale.