The Commonwealth of Atlet is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Bareton Arthrokotte with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 4.53 billion Atletians 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arknotte. The average income tax rate is 23.5%.

The powerhouse Atletian economy, worth 477 trillion Parces a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 105,441 Parces, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's most popular sport is sabotaging foreigners' hopes and dreams, road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work, soldiers are equipped with multi-million Parce battlesuits, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Atlet's national animal is the Cassowary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Atlet is ranked 82,991^st in the world and 4,450^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,121.01 on the Gilded Widget Scale.