The Empire of Atlas Security Consortium is a very large, efficient nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 172 million employees are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The very strong Atlas economy, worth 11.5 trillion Atlas dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 66,791 Atlas dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 399,773 per year while the poor average 5,069, a ratio of 78.9 to 1.

Tough diplomacy is often best handled with a nutcracker, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, the tinfoil-hat crowd also recommend tinfoil wallets, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime is moderate. Atlas Security Consortium's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Atlas Security Consortium is ranked 200,433^rd in the world and 1,182^nd in Europe for Safest, scoring 40.79 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.